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Author : Henry Burt Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Campaign of Plataea (September, 479 B.C.) written by Henry Burt Wright and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shepherd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780960301
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Plataea 479 BC written by William Shepherd and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly illustrated account of the closing battle of the Greek and Persian War. Plataea was one of the biggest and most important land battles of pre-20th century history. Close to 100,000 hoplite and light-armed Greeks took on an even larger barbarian army that included elite Asian cavalry and infantry, and troops from as far away as India, with thousands of Greek hoplites and cavalry also fighting on the Persian side. At points in the several days of combat, the Persians with their greater mobility and more fluid, missile tactics came close to breaking the Greek defensive line and succeeded in cutting off their supplies. But, in a fatal gamble when he nearly had the battle won, their general Mardonius committed the cream of his infantry to close-quarters combat with the Spartans and their Peloponnesian allies. The detailed reconstruction of this complex battle draws on recent studies of early 5th-century hoplite warfare and a fresh reading of the ancient textual sources, predominantly Herodotus, and close inspection of the battlefield.
Author : William Shepherd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849085552
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Plataea 479 BC written by William Shepherd and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly illustrated account of the closing battle of the Greek and Persian War. Plataea was one of the biggest and most important land battles of pre-20th century history. Close to 100,000 hoplite and light-armed Greeks took on an even larger barbarian army that included elite Asian cavalry and infantry, and troops from as far away as India, with thousands of Greek hoplites and cavalry also fighting on the Persian side. At points in the several days of combat, the Persians with their greater mobility and more fluid, missile tactics came close to breaking the Greek defensive line and succeeded in cutting off their supplies. But, in a fatal gamble when he nearly had the battle won, their general Mardonius committed the cream of his infantry to close-quarters combat with the Spartans and their Peloponnesian allies. The detailed reconstruction of this complex battle draws on recent studies of early 5th-century hoplite warfare and a fresh reading of the ancient textual sources, predominantly Herodotus, and close inspection of the battlefield.
Author : William Watkiss Lloyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The age of Pericles written by William Watkiss Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Watkiss Lloyd
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385228808
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)
Download or read book The Age of Pericles written by William Watkiss Lloyd and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-19 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Peter Green
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520917065
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Greco-Persian Wars written by Peter Green and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-11-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reissue, with a new introduction and an update to the bibliography, of the original edition, published in 1970 as The Year of Salamis in England and as Xerxes at Salamis in the U.S. The long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire and the fledgling Greek states reached its high point with the extraordinary Greek victory at Salamis in 480 B.C. The astonishing sea battle banished forever the specter of Persian invasion and occupation. Peter Green brilliantly retells this historic moment, evoking the whole dramatic sweep of events that the Persian offensive set in motion. The massive Greek victory, despite the Greeks' inferior numbers, opened the way for the historic evolution of the Greek states in a climate of creativity, independence, and democracy, one that provided a model and an inspiration for centuries to come. Green's accounts of both Persian and Greek strategies are clear and persuasive; equally convincing are his everyday details regarding the lives of soldiers, statesmen, and ordinary citizens. He has first-hand knowledge of the land and sea he describes, as well as full command of original sources and modern scholarship. With a new foreword, The Greco-Persian Wars is a book that lovers of fine historical writing will greet with pleasure.
Author : Peter Green
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Year of Salamis, 480-479 BC. written by Peter Green and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1970 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nigel Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113678800X
Total Pages : 829 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece written by Nigel Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an international group of scholars. This Encyclopedia is derived from the more broadly focused Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, the highly praised two-volume work. Newly edited by Nigel Wilson, this single-volume reference provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the political, cultural, and social life of the people and to the places, ideas, periods, and events that defined ancient Greece.
Author : Jan Zacharias Van Rookhuijzen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110612534
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Herodotus and the topography of Xerxes’ invasion written by Jan Zacharias Van Rookhuijzen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Histories, Herodotus of Halicarnassus gave an account of Xerxes’ invasion of Greece (480 BCE). Among the information in this work features a rich topography of the places visited by the army, as well as of the battlefields. Apparently there existed a certain demand among the Greeks to behold the exact places where they believed that the Greeks had fallen, gods had appeared, or Xerxes had watched over his men. This book argues that Herodotus’ topography, long taken at face value as if it provided unambiguous access to the historical sites of the war, may partly be a product of Greek imagination in the approximately fifty years between the Xerxes’ invasion and its publication, with the landscape functioning as a catalyst. This innovative approach leads to a new understanding of the topography of the invasion, and of the ways in which Greeks in the late fifth century BCE understood the world around them. It also prompts new suggestions about the real-world locations of various places mentioned in Herodotus’ text.
Author : Graham Speake
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135942137
Total Pages : 2407 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition written by Graham Speake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 2407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hellenism is the living culture of the Greek-speaking peoples and has a continuing history of more than 3,500 years. The Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition contains approximately 900 entries devoted to people, places, periods, events, and themes, examining every aspect of that culture from the Bronze Age to the present day. The focus throughout is on the Greeks themselves, and the continuities within their own cultural tradition. Language and religion are perhaps the most obvious vehicles of continuity; but there have been many others--law, taxation, gardens, music, magic, education, shipping, and countless other elements have all played their part in maintaining this unique culture. Today, Greek arts have blossomed again; Greece has taken its place in the European Union; Greeks control a substantial proportion of the world's merchant marine; and Greek communities in the United States, Australia, and South Africa have carried the Hellenic tradition throughout the world. This is the first reference work to embrace all aspects of that tradition in every period of its existence.
Author : Herodotus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Herodotos IX 1-89 (Plataea) written by Herodotus and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. E. Lendon
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN 13 : 0465015069
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Song of Wrath written by J. E. Lendon and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a thrilling account of the first stage of the Peloponnesian War, also known as the Ten Years' War, between the city-states of Athens and Sparta, detailing the pitched battles by land and sea, sieges, sacks, raids and deeds of cruelty—along with courageous acts of mercy, charity and resistance.
Author : Josephus Nelson Larned
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research written by Josephus Nelson Larned and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Boston Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book Annual List of New and Important Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shepherd
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781846036842
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Salamis 480 BC written by William Shepherd and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Osprey's study of a crucial battle of the Grerco-Persian Wars (499-449 BC). Weeks after the glorious disaster at Thermopylae and heavy but inconclusive fighting at sea off Artemisium, with Athens now in barbarian hands and the Acropolis burned, the Greeks dramatically halted the Persian invasion of 480BC. They brought the 600-strong Persian fleet to battle with their 350 triremes in the confined waters of the straits of Salamis and, through a combination of superior tactics and fighting spirit, won a crushing victory. This drove the Persian navy out of the western Aegean and enabled the Hellenic Alliance to combine its manpower in sufficient force to destroy the massive occupying army in the following year. Victory over the Persians secured the 5th century flowering of Greek and, in particular, Athenian culture and institutions that so influenced the subsequent development of western civilisation. This book draws extensively on the findings of archaeological, technological and naval research, as well as on the historical sources to vividly recreate one of the most important naval campaigns in world history.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1792 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Evelyn S. Shuckburgh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107619351
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)
Download or read book A Short History of the Greeks written by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1901, this book was intended as a history of the Greeks and an outline of the continuing influence of ancient Greek culture.
