Contents Preface Sources, Select Bibliography and Abbreviations Part I: Preparation Chapter 1: The Age of Xenophon Chapter 2: The Fifth Century Chapter 3: Origins Part II: Battle Chapter 4: Thermopylai Chapter 5: Plataea Chapter 6: Sphakteria Chapter 7: Mantineia Chapter 8: The Nemea, Koroneia and Lechaion Chapter 9: Leuktra Part III: Epilogue Chapter 10: After Leuktra Notes Glossary of Greek Terms To my friend and colleague of many years Dick Hope Simpson with whom, while ostensibly looking for Mycenaean sites, I contrived to visit most of the battlefields of Greece. Map 1. Ancient Sparta. Map 2. Thermopylai. Map 3. Plataea.