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Hanson, Victor Davis.
The end of Sparta : a novel / Victor Davis Hanson. — 1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
1. Epaminondas, b. ca. 420 B.C.—Fiction. 2. Generals—Greece—Thebes—Fiction.
3. Thebes (Greece)—History—Fiction. 4. Sparta (Greece)—History—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3608.A7233E63 2011
813‘.6—dc22    2011013805

First published by Bloomsbury USA in 2011
Electronic edition published in 2011

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