The classical art of command

Description

The Classical Age of Greece created a portion of history’s most popular officers and authorities.

They incorporate the Spartan ruler Leonidas, who epitomized his comrades’ brave ethos in the

skirmish of Thermopylae; the Athenian chief Themistocles, credited as the engineer of Athens’

maritime force and of the Greek triumph over the Persians; the acclaimed majority rule pioneer,

Pericles, who arranged Athens and coordinated its contention with Sparta, known as the

Peloponnesian War; the Athenian general Demosthenes, who digressed from contemporary

shows of fighting with his inventive methodology; the Spartan general Lysander, who won the

Peloponnesian War for Sparta; Dionysius I of Syracuse, apparently the most creative and best

talented of the eight commanders examined in this book; and Epaminondas and Pelopidas who

together changed their city, Thebes, into an authoritative force.