books.google.co.uk - Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of this remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third centuries BC. Through his Lives of Sparta's leaders and his recording of memorable Spartan Sayings he depicts...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Plutarch_on_Sparta.html?id=1H1Zk4kTv5IC&q=rhetra&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePlutarch on Sparta
