Hellenistic Phoenicia

our students wish to compare and contrast, as they should and must, the principal literary narrative accounts of this fascinating and (literally) critical period of Greek history, then they could do a great deal worse than read Agesilaus and the Failure of Spartan Hegemony with the same care and conscientiousness as have been lavished 1 upon it by its author. If, however, they also wish to re-assess the crisis of Sparta and 1 to re-evaluate the largely negative, I agree (132 n. 46, 150 and n. 101, 173, 257) achievements of the man allegedly 'by common consent the greatest and most s illustrious of his time' (Theopompos F 321), then I humbly suggest that they f complement their reading of H. with that of at least one other recent and relevant monograph.