The myth of Sparta’s martial prowess owes much of its ... Storming the beach at Pylos that same year, Brasidas ordered his ship to wreck itself on the rocks so he could assault the Athenians.

His book, Individuals and Society in Mycenaean Pylos (Brill 2013), developed new methods for investigating individuals named in the administrative Linear B texts and argued from this evidence that ...

Up against a steep hillside to the west of Sparta, with the silhouette of the ... and the fortified castle of Pylos, an imposing stone structure built by the Ottomans in the 16 th century.