The Persian Invasions Of Greece

Author : Arthur Keaveney
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844686264
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Persian Invasions of Greece written by Arthur Keaveney and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic story of how Greece repelled Persia’s massive forces in some of the most momentous battles of the ancient world. In 490 BC Darius I, Great King of Persia and the most powerful man in the world, led a massive invasion army to punish the interference of some minor states on the western borders of his huge empire. The main enemy was Athens. The resultant Battle of Marathon was a disaster for Darius—and one of the most famous victories for the underdog in all military history. The Persians were forced to withdraw and plot an even bigger expedition to conquer Athens and the whole of Greece once and for all. The second invasion came ten years later, under Darius’ successor, Xerxes. This led to the legendary last stand of the Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, the sacking of Athens, and the renowned naval clash at Salamis, which saved Greece. The following year, 479 BC, saw the remaining Persian forces driven from mainland Greece at the epic, yet strangely lesser-known Battle of Plataea, one of the largest pitched battles of the Classical Greek world. In this compelling history, Dr. Arthur Keaveney, an expert on Achaemenid Persia, re-examines these momentous, epoch-defining events—from both Greek and Persian perspectives—to give a full and balanced account based on the most recent research. Also included are maps and a number of color photographs of relevant historic sites and works of art.

Author : Jon D. Mikalson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807827987
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars written by Jon D. Mikalson and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two great Persian invasions of Greece, in 490 and 480-79 B.C., both repulsed by the Greeks, provide our best opportunity for understanding the interplay of religion and history in ancient Greece on a large scale. Using the Histories of Herodotu

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3986770682
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Persians written by Aeschylus and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Persians Aeschylus - The Persians is an Athenian tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus. First produced in 472 BC, it is the oldest surviving play in the history of theatre. It dramatises the Persian response to news of their military defeat at the Battle of Salamis (480 BC), which was a decisive episode in the Greco-Persian Wars; as such, the play is also notable for being the only extant Greek tragedy that is based on contemporary events.

Author : Robert Garland
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142142195X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athens Burning written by Robert Garland and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this next offering for the Witness to Ancient History series, Robert Garland writes about the Persian invasion of Greece in the 5th century BC. After introducing the reader to the contextual background of the Greco-Persian Wars, including the famous Battle of Marathon, Garland describes the various stages of the invasion from both the Persian and Greek point of view. He focuses on the Greek evacuation of Attica (the peninsular region of Greece that includes Athens), the siege of the Acropolis, the eventual defeat of the Persians by Athenian and Spartan armies, and the return of the Greek people to their land. Coming off his 2014 PUP book on the experience of diaspora in ancient Greece, Garland is well placed to speak authoritatively on this important time in ancient history when the Greeks had to flee their homeland. Garland is an experienced and productive writer whose experience producing video lecture courses for The Great Courses company makes him an ideal author for this introductory volume"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Tom Holland
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307386988
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persian Fire written by Tom Holland and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "fresh...thrilling" (The Guardian) account of the Graeco-Persian Wars. In the fifth century B.C., a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold, and men. The terrorist states were Athens and Sparta, eccentric cities in a poor and mountainous backwater: Greece. The story of how their citizens took on the Great King of Persia, and thereby saved not only themselves but Western civilization as well, is as heart-stopping and fateful as any episode in history. Tom Holland’s brilliant study of these critical Persian Wars skillfully examines a conflict of critical importance to both ancient and modern history.

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Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Persian Invasion of Greece written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 161 pages
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Download or read book Second Persian Invasion of Greece written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jack Martin Balcer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Persian Conquest of the Greeks, 545-450 B.C. written by Jack Martin Balcer and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the Persian Wars with the Greeks from the Persian view, by analyzing the growth of the Persian Empire to the point that incorporation of all ancient Greece into that imperials system became the inevitable next step.

Author : Peter Green
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520917065
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greco-Persian Wars written by Peter Green and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-11-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reissue, with a new introduction and an update to the bibliography, of the original edition, published in 1970 as The Year of Salamis in England and as Xerxes at Salamis in the U.S. The long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire and the fledgling Greek states reached its high point with the extraordinary Greek victory at Salamis in 480 B.C. The astonishing sea battle banished forever the specter of Persian invasion and occupation. Peter Green brilliantly retells this historic moment, evoking the whole dramatic sweep of events that the Persian offensive set in motion. The massive Greek victory, despite the Greeks' inferior numbers, opened the way for the historic evolution of the Greek states in a climate of creativity, independence, and democracy, one that provided a model and an inspiration for centuries to come. Green's accounts of both Persian and Greek strategies are clear and persuasive; equally convincing are his everyday details regarding the lives of soldiers, statesmen, and ordinary citizens. He has first-hand knowledge of the land and sea he describes, as well as full command of original sources and modern scholarship. With a new foreword, The Greco-Persian Wars is a book that lovers of fine historical writing will greet with pleasure.

Author : George Cawkwell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191541249
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greek Wars written by George Cawkwell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek Wars treats of the whole course of Persian relations with the Greeks from the coming of Cyrus in the 540s down to Alexander the Great's defeat of Darius III in 331 BC. Cawkwell discusses from a Persian perspective major questions such as why Xerxes' invasion of Greece failed, and how important a part the Great King played in Greek affairs in the fourth century. Cawkwell's views are at many points original: in particular, his explanation of how and why the Persian invasion of Greece failed challenges the prevailing orthodoxy, as does his view of the importance of Persia in Greek affairs for the two decades after the King's Peace. Persia, he concludes, was destroyed by Macedonian military might but moral decline had no part in it; the Macedonians who had subjected Greece were too good an army, but their victory was not easy.