The Greeks at War
Subtitle: From Athens to Alexander (Essential Histories Specials)
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: August 20, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781841768564
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Military - General; History - Military / War; History; History: World; Ancient Greece; To 146 B.C; Ancient - Greece; History / Military / General; Greece; History,Military
First sentence: The enquiries of the Greek historian Herodotus into the wars between the Greeks and the Persians led him to conclude that their origins lay in the rise to power of the Persian Empire under the first of the Achaemenid kings, Kyros the Great.