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Cover illustration: Clash of phalanxes represented on the Protocorinthian olpe known as the Chigi Vase, ca. 640 (detail; at Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia 22679; from The American Color Slide Co.). From the book The Spartan Regime, by Paul A. Rahe, page 3.