[real-eyes] Final Reminder: The Spartans Discussion July 21
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- Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:16:39 -0500
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Come join us on Wednesday, July 21st and review the book, "The Spartans: the
World of the Warrior: Heroes of Ancient Greece, from Utopia to Crisis and
Collapse" [DB 61834] and listen to the Author, Paul Cartledge,
participating on a BBC panel.
Although ancient Sparta and Athens were opposites in many ways, they are
regarded as the major pillars of Western thought and Civilization. Athens
is famed as the seat of logic and philosophy, democracy and the individual.
Sparta, on the other hand, was idealized as the original utopia, a
remarkably evolved society whose people exemplified the key values of duty,
discipline, sacrificing the individual for the greater good.
Paul Cartledge, world recognized expert on Sparta and consultant for
documentaries by the BBC and PBS explains the development and contradictions
of the Spartan civilization beginning with its rise during the Doric
expansion into the Peloponnesian Peninsula around 1100 BCE, it's enslavement
of it's Greek neighbors, and the development of its militaristic
constitution. Cartledge describes how Sparta reached its height in the
Persian Wars between 490-479 B.C. when Sparta, at its peak, led the fight
with Athens in the battle of Thermopylae which ultimately saving Greece and
Europe from Persian conquest and resulted in the expansion of Hellenistic
city states into the Persian domain. The author explains how the fratricidal
Peloponnesian war with Athens, 431-404 B.C. resulted in the decline of both
of the former allies, Athens and Sparta.
This book should satisfy anyone interested in learning more about Greek
history and its profound influence on Western Civilization. The author has a
lucid writing style and inserts many anecdotes about famous historical
characters of the time which are firmly documented by archeological evidence
and writings of historians of the time.
NLS BARD LISTING:
The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece, from Utopia
to Crisis and Collapse
Cartledge, Paul. Read by Lou Harpenau. Reading time 10 hours 9 minutes.
World History
Download The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece,
from Utopia to Crisis and Collapse, DB58416
NLS RC58416
In August we will narrow our focus from a thousand years of Greek History to
the era surrounding the 33 year life of Alexander the Great who conquered
and spread Hellenic civilization throughout the known world.
Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past, 2004 DB59342
Cartledge, Paul. Read by Roy Avers. Reading time 12 hours 50 minutes.
In September, we advance into the Roman era and its most famous general,
Julius Caesar, whom the author contends was not responsible for the end of
the Roman republic as most historians have claimed.
The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient
RomeBB57323
Parenti, Michael. Read by Bill Wallace. Reading time 7 hours 16 minutes.2003
World History
Leaving the distant past, our tentative choice for October deals with more
recent history by a former member of the Nixon Administration.
NLS /BARD summary:
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and
Borrowed Money in the Twenty-first Century DB 61924
Phillips, Kevin. Read by Michael Scherer. Reading time 19 hours 13 minutes.
World History Bestseller 2006.
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will be facilitated by Don Queen, (Email: queens@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, July 21st 2010.
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