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‘A Greater Than Leonidas’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

T. Rutherford Harley
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The thesis of this paper is that Brasidas, while being second to no Spartan in courage and endurance, excelled them all, if not other Greek generals as well, even during his short life, in grasp of military principles, in energy, enterprise, leadership, in military genius.

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Greece & Rome , Volume 11 , Issue 32 , February 1942 , pp. 68 - 83
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1942

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page 75 note 1 Brasidas, on the contrary, was always impelled to instant action by such difficulties.

page 79 note 1 iv. 85.

page 83 note 1 Plutarch, , Mor. 219C.Google Scholar