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Playing as the Spartans, Egyptians, and Persians, gamers must battle through a variety of scenarios as they struggle to maintain control of Little Asia, Europe, and North Africa. Single-players entering the campaign must take the role of three different nationalities as they attempt to complete the game. It exhibits not only his magisterial command of a vast, complicated body of facts, but his comprehensive understanding of the larger context of strategic thinking then and now.Ancient Wars: Sparta is based upon Mediterranean historical events that took place between 500 and 450 B.C. This is more than military history, more than diplomatic history. Based on an understanding that equals that of any contemporary strategic thinker, Rahe examines the upheavals in the Hellenic world that followed Persia's defeat, the roots of dissension in the geography of Sparta and Athens, and the influence of domestic policy on the contestants' diplomatic and military maneuvers."-Seth Cropsey, former deputy Undersecretary of the Navy "Rahe's far-reaching and audacious reconstruction of ancient Greek history proceeds apace. But, as Paul Rahe's Sparta's Second Attic War explains in elegantly crafted language, the notion of resolving global-sized confrontations is a modern conceit.

Maurer, Naval War College "The West's victory in the Cold War may not have been the equal of the early 5th century Greek victory over the Persians. His latest volume on Sparta's protracted struggle with Athens, Sparta's Second Attic War, provides insight into enduring problems of politics and strategy in wartime, into why and how peoples fight, both in the ancient world and in our own troubled times."-John H. "Paul Rahe stands out as one of the world's leading scholars on the Peloponnesian War. A very good read for anyone interested in the idea of grand strategy."-A. Cliff Cunningham, Sun News Austin "An outstanding treatment. Each book is thoroughly readable, and in many cases becomes a page-turner as the excitement of the events Rahe relates is undiminished after 2500 years. Cliff Cunningham, Sun News Austin " has now published four volumes in his history of Sparta.

It deserves a place on the shelf of anyone curious either about this war in particular or the causes of war at any time or place."- Robert Stone, Review of Politics " has now published four volumes in his history of Sparta. Rahe gives us a thought-provoking counterpoint to many of the trends in classical scholarship of the last several decades. The books are fun reads and grist for deep political reflection."-Scott Yenor, Boise State University, I nterpretation "Rahe's ambitious project is by any measure a remarkable feat."-Victor Davis Hanson, New Criterion "In the third volume of his ongoing history of classical Sparta's grand strategy, Paul A. Rahe's approach to grand strategy provides an indispensable preparation for political philosophy. The book also succeeds marvelously as a reintroduction to the portrait of grand strategy so central to the ancient view of political science. No lover of the Greeks would want to miss this gripping tale, told by someone with keen political sensibilities and a vivid imagination for what is possible.

"The book succeeds marvelously as a tale of this time.