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After Thermopylae
Oxford University Press, USA 2013; US$ 18.99The Battle of Plataea in 479 BCE is one of world history's unjustly neglected events. It decisively ended the threat of a Persian conquest of Greece. It involved tens of thousands of combatants, including the largest number of Greeks ever brought together in a common cause. For the Spartans, the driving force behind the Greek victory, the battle... more...
Griechen besiegen Perser bei Salamis!
Konrad Theiss Verlag 2011; US$ 12.94Hauptbeschreibung Ereignisse, die die Welt bewegten - alle Hintergründe und Fakten! 480 v. Chr.: Xerxes ist entsetzt. Hilflos muss er zusehen, wie die Griechen seine Flotte Schiff für Schiff aufreiben. Die Perser wissen kaum, wie ihnen geschieht. Die Griechen hingegen werden diesen Tag nie vergessen; er stellt die Weichen für die goldene Zeit der... more...
Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars
OUP Oxford 2007; US$ 198.99Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars addresses the huge impact on subsequent culture made by the wars fought between ancient Persia and Greece in the early fifth century BC. It brings together sixteen interdisciplinary essays, mostly by classical scholars, on individual trends within the reception of this period of history, extending from the wars'... more...
Marathon
Scribe Publications 2011; US$ 27.99A fresh, gripping look at one of Western historys defining momentsThe inspiration for our modern-day marathon comes from the legend of Philippides, who is said to have run 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to deliver the news of the Greeks victory over the Persians. Yet the battle of Marathon has had a far greater impact; it can even be... more...
Marathon
Souvenir Press 2005; US$ 16.99At Marathon, the site of the key battle between Greek and Persian armies, independence and a radical new political form were at stake. Through an overview of the religion, culture, and alliances among city-states, this historical account adds depth and context to the battle that safeguarded the autonomy of Greek life, allowed for the development of... more...
Marathon
Souvenir Press 2011; US$ 14.57At Marathon an army of Greek city states, including Sparta and Athens, met the Persian army of Darius. This was the key battle of Western civilisation for Athens were defending not only their independence but their radical new political form, democracy. Alan Lloyd details the course of Athenian democracy, its religion and culture and the uneasy alliances... more...
Der Orient bis zur Schlacht von Salamis. Griechenland bis auf Perikles
De Gruyter 1847; US$ 182.00Niebuhr, Barthold Georg: Historische und philologische Vorträge. Alte Geschichte nach Justins Folge mit Ausschluß der römischen Geschichte: Der Orient ... bis auf Perikles: Abtheilung 2. Band 1 more...
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