Andrew Bayliss: Sparta – The Rise and Fall of An Ancient Superpower

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Episode: Andrew Bayliss: Sparta – The Rise and Fall of An Ancient Superpower
Pub date: 2025-09-10

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Sam 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 Sparta.

Produced by Patrick Gibbons.

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