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Reading Herodotus : A Guided Tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History /
Debra Hamel's book is a lively introduction to The History of the Persian Wars, Herodotus' account of Persia's expansion under four kings - Cyrus, Cambyses, Darius, and Xerxes - and its eventual collision with the city-states of Greece. The History can be a long slog for modern reader...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Md. :
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- How to destroy a mighty empire: the story of Croesus of Lydia
- Cannibals and conquests: the story of Cyrus the Great
- Horny goats and medicinal urine: the Egyptian logos
- Madness and mummies: the reign of Cambyses
- Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Mediterranean: the stories of Polycrates and Periander
- Earless imposters and randy mounts: the early reign of Darius the Great
- The trouble with nomads: Darius' Scythian campaign
- Stuttering colonists and lousy deaths: the Libyan logos
- Tattooed slaves and ousted tyrants: post-Pisistratid Athens and the Ionian revolt
- Miltiades, madness, and Marathon: the first Persian War
- Feats of engineering and doomed valor: the Second Persian War to the Battle of Thermopylae
- Trial by trireme: the Battles at Artemisium and Salamis
- Concluding scenes: the Battles of Plataea and Mycale and the siege of Sestus.