Katrin's Reviews > The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece

This is a complicated book. Not being fully academic, but also detailed and scientific enough to remove it from any easy reading book list, haha. Cartledge has a huge knowledge and his research on the topic is massive. For this alone he deserves more than three stars. But truly it was tough to read it through at times, with just too much politics and details to bore the bejeesus out of someone who just wants to enjoy a history of the Spartans, some capturing book about their society. In that regard it missed a bit the mark. This should have been either a pure academic paper with resources, quotes etc for his study colleagues, or to publish a much lighter version for the everyday reader. Other than that this is a massive reference to any Spartan addict who needs to know everything. It's really greatly researched and detailed.