Andrew Bayliss: Sparta – The Rise and Fall of An Ancient Superpower
Podcast: The Book Club (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Andrew Bayliss: Sparta – The Rise and Fall of An Ancient SuperpowerPub date: 2025-09-10Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSam Leith’s guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Andrew Bayliss, author of Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower. Andrew tells Sam what we know — and don't know – about these much-mythologised figures from the Ancient world and tells the story of how a tiny city-state punched above its weight, until it didn't. This is…
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