
Two Deaths at Amphipolis
Mike Roberts(Author)
Pen & Sword Military (Publisher)
Published on 1. October 2015
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-78346-378-7 (ISBN)
Description
This original book looks in detail at arguably the two most significant characters on either side in the middle years of the great Peloponnesian War and the showdown in and around Amphipolis that led to both their deaths in 422 BC. The Spartan commander Brasidas was already a veteran of many campaigns when he headed for the strategically important northern theatre. Cleon was the key hawk in the Athenian assembly who led his fellow citizens in a major effort to counter the impact that Brasidas was having in the north. The two finally clashed in battle outside the Athenian colony of Amphipolis which Brasidas had by then captured (the great historian Thucydides being exiled for his failure to defend it). The Spartans won but both men died in the fighting, their passing having far-reaching consequences for the subsequent course of the war. By focussing on the fatal duel between Brasidas and Cleon, and drawing on all available sources to supplement Thucydides' seminal account, Mike Roberts offers a valuable new perspective on the Peloponnesian War.
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Language
English
Place of publication
South Yorkshire
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Illustrations
18 photos (8pp plate section), 4 maps (re-used) and 6 tactical diagrams
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78346-378-7 (9781783463787)
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E-Book
07/2015
Pen and Sword
€21.99
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Person
Mike Roberts is a social worker by training, but has had a long-standing interest in the military history of Classical and Hellenistic Greece. He is the co-author (with his good friend Bob Bennett) of several well-received books: The Wars of Alexander's Successors (volumes I and II); The Twilight of the Hellenistic World and The Spartan Supremacy, all published by Pen & Sword Military. This is his first solo book.