Thermopylae
Subtitle: the battle that changed the world
By: Paul Cartledge
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Woodstock
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Thermopylae, Battle of, Greece, 480 B.C; Greece -- History -- Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C; Thermopylae (Greece) -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-295) and index
Table of contents: title: Setting the awful scene; title: The ancient world in 500 BCE: from India to the Aegean; title: The dynamics of empire: Persia of the Achaemenids, 485; title: Hellas: the Hellenic world in 485; title: Sparta 485: a unique culture and society; title: Thermopylae I: mobilization; title: Thermopylae II: preparations for battle; title: Thermopylae III: the battle; title: The Thermopylae legend I: antiquity; title: The Thermopylae legend II: from antiquity to modernity; title: Thermopylae: turning-point in world history; title: Appendix 1: the invention of history: Herodotus and other ancient sources; title: Appendix 2: Herodotus's Persian Muster-lists:  a translation; title: Appendix 3: Herodotus: antidote to fundamentalism