Topography Illustrative Of The Battle Of Plataea Scholars Choice Edition
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| Author | : John Spencer-Stanhope |
| Publisher | : Scholar's Choice |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2015-02-18 |
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| ISBN | : 9781298148186 |
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| Total Pages | : 584 |
| Release | : 1861 |
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| Author | : Astor Library |
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| Total Pages | : 1130 |
| Release | : 1859 |
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| Author | : Jan Zacharias Van Rookhuijzen |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 390 |
| Release | : 2018-11-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3110612534 |
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 | : New York city, Astor libr |
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| Total Pages | : 594 |
| Release | : 1861 |
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| Author | : Ernle Bradford |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2014-04-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1497617367 |
An account of the ancient battle between Persia and the alliance of Greek city-states, including the legendary “300 Spartans.” In 480 BCE, Persian king Xerxes led a massive invasion of Greece. A critical point in this invasion was the battle for the pass at Thermopylae—“Hot Gates” in Greek. Xerxes had amassed one of the largest armies yet known to man, while Leonidas’s troops, a group of united Spartans, Thespians, Thebans, and others, including slaves, were a small fraction of the Persian horde. Despite the overwhelming odds, Leonidas and his men stood their ground for three days in a historic display of patriotism and courage. In Thermopylae: Battle for the West, acclaimed author Ernle Bradford covers the entire era of the invasion—from the foundation of the Persian empire to the accession of Darius all the way to the final, bloody battles—in a fascinating and accessible look at warfare in ancient times.
| Author | : A. T. Olmstead |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 671 |
| Release | : 2022-08-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0226826333 |
Out of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, and thought of the Persians, told for the first time from the Persian rather than the traditional Greek point of view. "The fullest and most reliable presentation of the history of the Persian Empire in existence."—M. Rostovtzeff
| Author | : William Shepherd |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2012-01-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1780960301 |
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.
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| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 409 |
| Release | : 2018-11-26 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004383344 |
In this collected volume fourteen experts in the fields of Classics and Ancient History study the textual strategies used by Herodotus and Livy when recounting the disastrous battles at Thermopylae and Cannae. Literary, linguistic and historical approaches are used (often in combination) in order to enhance and enrich the interpretation of the accounts, which for obvious reasons confronted the authors with a special challenge. Chapters drawing a comparison with other battle narratives and with other genres help to establish genre-specific elements in ancient historiography, and draw attention to the particular techniques employed by Herodotus and Livy in their war narratives.
| Author | : George G. M. James |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2013-04-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1627930159 |
For centuries the world has been misled about the original source of the Arts and Sciences; for centuries Socrates, Plato and Aristotle have been falsely idolized as models of intellectual greatness; and for centuries the African continent has been called the Dark Continent, because Europe coveted the honor of transmitting to the world, the Arts and Sciences. It is indeed surprising how, for centuries, the Greeks have been praised by the Western World for intellectual accomplishments which belong without a doubt to the Egyptians or the peoples of North Africa.
