| Description |
xxxvii, 313 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-295) and index. |
| Contents |
Setting the awful scene -- The ancient world in 500 BCE: from India to the Aegean -- The dynamics of empire: Persia of the Achaemenids, 485 -- Hellas: the Hellenic world in 485 -- Sparta 485: a unique culture and society -- Thermopylae I: mobilization -- Thermopylae II: preparations for battle -- Thermopylae III: the battle -- The Thermopylae legend I: antiquity -- The Thermopylae legend II: from antiquity to modernity -- Thermopylae: turning-point in world history -- Appendix 1: the invention of history: Herodotus and other ancient sources -- Appendix 2: Herodotus's Persian Muster-lists: a translation -- Appendix 3: Herodotus: antidote to fundamentalism. |
| Subject |
Thermopylae, Battle of, Greece, 480 B.C.
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Greece -- History -- Persian Wars, 500 B.C.-449 B.C.
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Thermopylae (Greece) -- History.
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| ISBN |
1585675660 |
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9781585675661 |
| Standard No. |
9781585675661 |
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