Site of Sin and Suffering
James Romm: Theban Power, 2 July 2020
Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece
by Paul Cartledge.
Picador, 320 pp., £12.99, May,978 1 5098 7317 3 Show More
by Paul Cartledge.
Picador, 320 pp., £12.99, May,
“... leadership lasted little more than a decade (and that of his partner, Pelopidas, was also short-lived), but Cartledge’s treatment of the Epaminondas era is the richest chapter in this book, in part because the extant sources are far more extensive. Plutarch, a native of Chaeronea in Boeotia, took a strong interest in his region’s heroes, though he ... ”