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- English
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The Greek and Persian Wars 499-386 BC
About this book
This book covers one of the defining periods of European history. The series of wars between the Greeks and the Persian Empire produced the famous battles of Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis, as well as an ill-fated attempt to overthrow the Persian king in 400 BC, which helped to inspire the conquests of Alexander the Great. To tell the story of these momentous events--of the lives of great men and women, the societies and cultures that produced them, and how and why they came into conflict--was the aim of Herodotus. Known as the Father of History, Herodotus' account of the wars is the first book to be called a history, and is the principal source for this concise and accessible volume.
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Index
Figures in bold refer to illustrations
Achaemenes 19
Achaimenes 40
Acropolis 59, 60, 90
Adeimantos 53
Agesilaos 91
Ahuramazda 20, 40, 68
Aigina 8, 29, 30, 48, 49, 51, 71
Aischylos
The Persians 64, 80
Akanthos 43
Alexander I 43, 68
Alexander the Great 8, 92
Amasis 19
Amazons 72-73
Antalkidas 92
Antaxerxes 82, 89, 91
Aphetai 51-54
Apollo 13, 70
'archons' 27-28
Argos 13, 48
Aristagoras 8, 9, 12, 13, 17
Aristeides 8, 29, 63, 65, 88
Aristion 86
Aristodemos 75-79
Ariston 86
Artabazos 68, 70
Artaphernes 9, 12, 13, 14-17, 18, 30
Artemisia 65
Artemision, battle of 8, 49, 53-54, 57, 64
Ashurbanipal 19
Assyria 19
Astyages 19
Athens 8, 13, 27-29, 30, 31, 32, 36, 48, 49-51, 58-60, 68, 80-81, 92
Atossa 80-81, 83, 84
Attika 27-29, 30-31, 32, 60, 84-86
Babylon 8
Babylonia 19, 21, 40, 68
Baktria 19
Bardiya 8, 19
Byzantion 8, 88
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chronology
- The coming of the Persians
- Persia, Sparta and Athens
- Dareios sends an expedition to Greece
- Xerxes' invasion of Greece
- Aristodemos the Spartan
- Persian Architecture
- Demokedes and Demaratos
- The Greeks attack the Persian Empire
- The Peloponnesian War
- Further reading
- Index