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Fields of Battle: Retracing Ancient Battlefields.

"Richard Evans revisits the sites of a selection of Greek and Roman battles and sieges to seek new insights. The battle narratives in ancient sources can be a thrilling read and form the basis of our knowledge of these epic events, but they can just as often provide an incomplete or obscure rec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Evans, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • New perspectives on the war in Ionia (499-493 BC)
  • From Marathon to Thermopylae: expurgating Persian war myths (490-480 BC)
  • Caesar's campaigns to Ilerda in 49 BC
  • Tacitus on the Battles of Bedriacum and the deaths of two emperors.