Thermopylae
Subtitle: the battle that changed the world
By: Paul Cartledge
Publisher: Pan Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781447237211
Subjects: Thermopylae, Battle of, Greece, 480 B.C.; Bataille des Thermopyles, Grèce, 480 av. J.-C; History
Description: " 'Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.' Thus did the poet Simonides remember the three hundred elite Spartan warriors, who, led by their king, Leonidas, faced the vast, inrushing Persian army at the "hot gates" of Thermopylae and fought to the death for an ideal dearer to them that life itself - the ideal of freedom. ..."--Back cover.
Notes: Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Timeline; title: Family tree of the Achaemenid royal family; title: Prologue: Setting the awful scene; title: 1. The ancient world in 500 BCE: from India to the Aegean; title: 2. The dynamics of empire: Persia of the Achaemenids, 485 [BCE]; title: 3. Hellas: the Hellenic world in 485 [BCE]; title: 4. Sparta 485 [BCE]: a unique culture and society; title: 5. Thermopylae I: mobilization; title: 6. Thermopylae II: preparations for battle; title: 7. Thermopylae III: the battle; title: 8. The Thermopylae legend I: antiquity; title: 9. The Thermopylae legend II: from antiquity to modernity; title: Epilogue: Thermopylae: turning point in world history; title: Appendix 1: The invention of history: Herodotus and other ancient sources; title: Appendix 2: Herodotus' Persian master-lists: a translation; title: Appendix 3: Herodotus: antidote to fundamentalism.