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Ancient warriors Daughter of Sparta 2 Great courses (DVD) Spartans (New York, N.Y.)Sepahban, Lois.
Summary: Introduces readers to Spartan warriors, including their history and famous battles, uniforms and weapons, and training and tactics.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Childs World 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J932 CHIAndrews, Claire M.
Summary: "As the kingdoms of Greece clash on the shores of Troy and the gods choose sides, Daphne must user her wits, her training, and her precarious relationship with Apollo to keep her queen safe, stop the war, and uncover the true reason the gods led her to Troy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ANDSummary: From the late stages of the Agricultural Revolution to the doorstep of the Scientific Revolution, this course covers western history from roughly 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1600, when the "foundations" of the modern West come into view. Beginning in the ancient Near East, moving to Greece and Rome, the course explores the shape and impact of large ancient empires, including those of Persia and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
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5 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 FOUCall number: DVD 909 FOU PART 1
Call number: DVD 909 FOU PART 2
Call number: DVD 909 FOU PART 3
Call number: DVD 909 FOU PART 4
Summary: This segment begins by exploring how Sparta and Athens fell out after the Persian Wars, with a look at the contrast between Athenian and Spartan politics and society. Women’s life is given much attention, and Sparta comes off as considerably more enlightened, by modern Western standards. The legacy of “radical” Spartan customs on later societies is discussed. Lastly, the Laconian earthquake of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: This last segment opens at Delphi with a look at Greek religion and Spartan attitudes toward the gods and oracles before resuming the history of the Peloponnesian War. Alcibiades, the Syracuse expedition, and Lysander are examined. Then the period of the Spartan hegemony is briefly described. Hughes notes the critical decline of Spartan citizen manpower and the rise of Thebes as a rival. She...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: This first segment takes us on a journey to the Dark Ages of Greece, the end of the Achaean Age, and the coming of the Dorian Greeks to the Peloponnesus and Laconia. Next the Messenian conquest and the establishment of the Spartan constitution are presented. The upbringing of Spartan youths, warts and all, is then addressed at length. Spartan institutions are credited for initiating a system of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Guild, Nicholas
Summary: "On a cold night, at the outskirts of a peasant village, two Spartan youths wait to perform an ancient rite of passage. A family--father, mother, and their son--approaches, unarmed and defenseless. The young men step into the moonlight and claim their manhood by killing the adults. The boy escapes. The Spartans have no idea how terrible an enemy they have called forth. Nothing could have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Forge Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates 2016