The following is a list of books we feel are relevant for the study of ancient Sparta. It is by no means exhaustive nor scholarly-academic journals are noticeably absent-but the bibliographies in many of the non-fiction titles should direct the reader to such sources. Blue, underlined titles are linked to their respective reviews. Ancient Sources Herodotus The Histories trans. Aubrey de Sélincourt (1954) Penguin edition Cornelius Nepos Lives of Famous Men trans. Gareth Schmeling (1971) Colorado Press, KS Diodorus Siculus History, Books IX­XII trans. C.H. Oldfather Loeb Classical Library edition, Volume IV Pausanias Guide to Greece trans. Peter Levi (1971) Penguin edition (two volumes) Plutarch Lives trans. John Dryden (1864 revision) Modern Library edition Moralia Particularly Instituta Laconia (Customs of the Spartans), Apophthegmata Laconia (Sayings of the Spartans), and Lacaenarum Apophthegmata (Sayings of Spartan Women). trans. Frank Cole Bannitt (1931) Loeb Classical Library edition, Volume III Thucydides The Peloponnesian War trans. Rex Warner (1954) Penguin edition Xenophon Hellenica trans. Rex Warner (1966) Penguin edition Scripta Minora Particularly Constitution of the Spartans. trans. E.C. Marchant (1925) Loeb Classical Library edition Various Sources Greek Lyrics trans. Richmond Lattimore U. of Chicago: 1960 (2nd ed.) Greek Lyric Poetry trans. Willis Barnstone Schocken: NY, 1972 Non-Fiction The Spartans: An Epic History Paul Cartledge Channel Four Books: U.K., 2002 The Greek and Macedonian Art of War F.E. Adcock U. of California: 1957 Military Theory and Practice in the Age of Xenophon J.K. Anderson U. of California: 1970 Sparta Robin Barrow Allen & Unwin: U.K., 1975 Chronology of the Ancient World E.J. Bickerman Cornell U.: 1968 The Battle for the West: Thermopylae Ernle Bradford McGraw-Hill: NY, 1980 Hellas Keith Branigan and Michael Vickers McGraw-Hill: NY, 1980 The Pelican History of Greece A.R. Burn Penguin: U.K., 1966 Persia and the Greeks: The Defense of the West, 546-478 B.C. A.R. Burn Minerva Press: NY, 1968 The Warring States of Greece A.R. Burn McGraw-Hill: NY, 1968 The Living Past of Greece A.R. and Mary Burn Little, Brown: Boston, 1980 A History of Greece J.B. Bury Modern Library edition (1913) Sparta and Laconia: A Regional History, 1300-362 B.C. Paul Cartledge Routledge: U.K., 1979 Hellenistic and Roman Sparta Paul Cartledge and Antony Spawforth Routledge: U.K., 1989 The Greek and Persian Wars, 500-323 B.C. Jack Cassin-Scott Osprey: U.K., 1977 Ancient Sparta K.M.T. Chrimes Manchester U.: U.K., 1949 The Greek Armies Peter Connolly Macdonald Educational: U.K., 1978 (Note: This book was later combined into Greece and Rome at War. Currently out of print, but well worth seeking out, mainly in part to the beautiful care given to the illustrations.) Greece and Rome at War Peter Connolly Prentice-Hall: NJ, 1981 Warfare in Ancient Greece Pierre Ducrey Schocken: NY, 1986 The Spartans L.F. Fitzhardinge Thames & Hudson: U.K., 1980 A History of Sparta: 950-192 B.C. W.G. Forrest Norton: NY, 1969 The Greco-Persian Wars (original title: Xerxes At Salamis, 1970) Peter Green U. of California: 1996 (rev. ed.) The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece Victor Davis Hanson Knopf: NY, 1989 Hoplites: The Classical Greek Battle Experience Victor Davis Hanson, ed. Routledge: U.K., 1993 Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars: 359-146 B.C. Duncan Head Wargames Research Group: U.K., 1982 The Ancient Spartans J.T. Hooker Dent: U.K., 1980 Early Sparta G.L. Huxley Faber: U.K., 1962 Sparta A.H.M. Jones Harvard U.: 1967 (reprinted by Barnes & Noble, 1994) The Spartan Army J.F. Lazenby Aris & Phillips: U.K., 1985 Atlas of the Greek World Peter Levi Facts on File: NY, 1980 Marathon Alan Lloyd Random House: NY, 1973 The Spartan Rhetra John Longhurst, ed. Coronado Press: KS, 1970 The Greek Experience Evi Melas, ed. Dutton: NY, 1974 Sparta Humphrey Michell Cambridge U.: U.K., 1964 Greece and Rome National Geographic Society Washington, DC, 1968 Armies of the Greek and Persian Wars: 500-350 B.C. Richard Nelson Wargames Research Group: U.K., 1978 The Lion in the Gateway Mary Renault Harper & Row: NY, 1964 The Ancient Greeks Nick Sekunda Osprey: U.K., 1986 The Spartan Army Nick Sekunda Osprey: U.K., 1998 Warfare in the Classical World John Warry St. Martin's: NY, 1980 Life in Greece in Ancient Times Paul Werner Liber: Switz., 1977 Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Classical World Michael Avi Yonah and Israel Shatzman Harper & Row: NY, 1975 Ancient Greece: An Illustrated History Peter Green Thames & Hudson: U.K., 1973 The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece Robert Morkot Penguin: U.K., 1996 Arms and Armour of the Greeks A.M. Snadgrass Cornell U.: 1967 Fiction Spartan Valerio Massimo Manfredi Macmillan: London, 2002 Gates of Fire Steven Pressfield Doubleday: NY, 1998 The 300 Spartans John Burke Signet: NY, 1962 A Victor of Salamis William Sterns Davis Macmillian: NY, 1907 Lion of Macedon David Gemmell Del Rey/Ballantine: NY, 1990 Tell Them in Sparta (alt. cover) Roderick Milton Methuen: U.K., 1962 Goat Song Frank Yerby Dell: NY, 1967 Comics, Film, Television Lion of Sparta Movie Classics Dell Comics, January 1963 300 (five-issue miniseries by Frank Miller) Dark Horse Comics May-Sept. 1998 The 300 Spartans 20th Century-Fox, 1962 -- 114 m. Dir. Rudolph Maté. Classic Greek Film Music (single CD) Silva Screen Records SSD 1052 (1995) Warriors of the Silver Screen (double CD) Silva Screen Records SSD 1081 (1997) (Both of the above contain "The Spartan March" composed by Manos Hadjidakis for the 1962 film The 300 Spartans, performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic.)   Musique de la Grèce Antique (LP) Harmonia Mundi (FR) HM 1015 (1979)   {Signature}