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Overlook Press
Language
English
Pages
313

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Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World
July 25, 2007, Blackstone Audio Inc.
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Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World
July 25, 2007, Blackstone Audiobooks
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Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World
July 25, 2007, Blackstone Audiobooks
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Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World
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Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World
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Thermopylae: the battle that changed the world
2007, Vintage Books, Vintage
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Table of 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

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-295) and index

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Library of Congress
DF225.5 .C37 2006, DF225.5.C37 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxvii, 313 p. :
Number of pages
313

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Open Library
OL17209605M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
1585675660
LCCN
2006050175
OCLC/WorldCat
71266590
Library Thing
1622082
Goodreads
314722

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