{"product_id":"2940149354009","title":"Sparta. The Warrior City-State","description":"There are few names able to evoke such contrasting feelings as that of Sparta. \u003cbr\u003eIn the modern man’s mind Sparta is quite often considered the rival and for many aspects the antagonist of Athens, the cradle of western civilization.\u003cbr\u003eThis point of view is certainly true on one end but we can’t limit ourselves to this superficial and too rush of an interpretation.\u003cbr\u003e Without a doubt Sparta has been a symbol of military prowess since its beginning but, as we shall see, it mostly has been a sophisticated and ambitious experiment in social engineering, at the same level as the ones we are used to study in the pages of recent history.\u003cbr\u003eCenturies before Pol Pot’s Cambodia or the Soviet Union, Sparta had been, as a matter of fact, a living testimony of the same ambitious ideas which are the ground of any social utopia worthy of that name.\u003cbr\u003eWith only one difference: Sparta lived for war and did not care about anything else.","brand":"LA CASE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072887308528,"sku":"2940149354009","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149354009_p0.jpg?v=1763715605","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149354009","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}