After Thermopylae : the oath of Plataea and the end of the Graeco-Persian Wars /
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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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Collection: | Emblems of antiquity.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.