An edition of Thermopylae
(2006)
Thermopylae
the battle that changed the world
by Paul Cartledge
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" 'Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.' Thus did the poet Simonides remember the three hundred elite Spartan warriors, who, led by their king, Leonidas, faced the vast, inrushing Persian army at the "hot gates" of Thermopylae and fought to the death for an ideal dearer to them that life itself - the ideal of freedom. ..."--Back cover.
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Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World
2006, ABRAMS (Ignition)
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1590208404 9781590208403
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Preface
Timeline
Family tree of the Achaemenid royal family
Prologue: Setting the awful scene
1. The ancient world in 500 BCE: from India to the Aegean
2. The dynamics of empire: Persia of the Achaemenids, 485 [BCE]
3. Hellas: the Hellenic world in 485 [BCE]
4. Sparta 485 [BCE]: a unique culture and society
5. Thermopylae I: mobilization
6. Thermopylae II: preparations for battle
7. Thermopylae III: the battle
8. The Thermopylae legend I: antiquity
9. The Thermopylae legend II: from antiquity to modernity
Epilogue: Thermopylae: turning point in world history
Appendix 1: The invention of history: Herodotus and other ancient sources
Appendix 2: Herodotus' Persian master-lists: a translation
Appendix 3: Herodotus: antidote to fundamentalism.
Edition Notes
Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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