Thermopylae : the battle that changed the world / Paul Cartledge.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cartledge, Paul
Language:English
Published: Woodstock : Overlook Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Thermopylae, Battle of, Greece, 480 B.C.
Greece > History > Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C.
Thermopylae (Greece) > History.
Physical Description:xxxvii, 313 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Setting the awful scene
  • The ancient world in 500 BCE: from India to the Aegean
  • The dynamics of empire: Persia of the Achaemenids, 485
  • Hellas: the Hellenic world in 485
  • Sparta 485: a unique culture and society
  • Thermopylae I: mobilization
  • Thermopylae II: preparations for battle
  • Thermopylae III: the battle
  • The Thermopylae legend I: antiquity
  • The Thermopylae legend II: from antiquity to modernity
  • Thermopylae: turning-point in world history
  • Appendix 1: the invention of history: Herodotus and other ancient sources
  • Appendix 2: Herodotus's Persian Muster-lists: a translation
  • Appendix 3: Herodotus: antidote to fundamentalism.