After Thermopylae : the oath of Plataea and the end of the Graeco-Persian Wars /

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The 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, th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cartledge, Paul
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Series:Emblems of antiquity.
Subjects:
479-479 B.C
Plataea, Battle of, Plataiai, Greece, 479 B.C.
Bataille de Platées, Platées, Grèce, 479 av. J.-C.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
Greece > Plataiai.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: arms and the men
  • The Oath of Plataea: texts and contexts
  • The Plataea Oath as a document of ancient Greek religion
  • The Persian Wars: making history on oath with Herodotus
  • The face of the Battle of Plataea
  • The Greeks invent the Persian Wars: the mythology and commemoration of Plataea
  • Conclusion: the legacy of Plataea.

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