Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
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This course compares the achievements of the very different Athenian and Spartan states, culminating in their drawn-out struggle to control the Greek world in the late 5th century BC. So far as is possible, we will base the assessment on what the Greeks wrote about themselves.
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