Atenas y Esparta : La rivalidad que dio forma a la antigua Grecia

No era has shaped the Western world as profoundly as Classical Greece, at whose heart stood two cities: Athens and Sparta. Together they defeated the formidable Persian Empire in a legendary struggle, but then turned their weapons against each other, spreading conflict and destruction throughout the eastern Mediterranean. Athens and Sparta tells the definitive story of the relationship between these two opposing cities: Sparta, brutal and militaristic; Athens, bold and radically democratic. Adrian Goldsworthy, one of the great historians of antiquity, chronicles the extraordinary rise of both cities and how they went from being allies to facing each other in the Peloponnesian War. Goldsworthy shows us how, despite being ideological and cultural opposites, both cities were driven by the same Greek yearning for excellence and spearheaded radically different proposals for how a state should be governed—proposals whose echoes still resonate in Western politics. This is the extraordinary story of the two cities whose alliance brought Greek civilization to its peak and whose confrontation led it to the brink of the abyss.