[PDF.32hc] After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars (Emblems of Antiquity)

After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars (Emblems of Antiquity)

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 | #269467 in Books |  Oxford University Press, USA |  2013-06-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.80 x1.00 x8.10l,.80 | File type: PDF | 240 pages

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||13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.| History, hype, propaganda and spin...|By JPS|The purpose of this book, which is part of the "Emblems of Antiquity" Series (just like The Throne of Adulis from G. Bowersock), is to present and discuss the so-called Oath of Plataea, which, together with another oath, was engraved on a stele in Attica. Paul Cartledge makes a very convincing case for this stele being dedicated so| ||"Well-written, and comprehensive scholarship that we have come to expect from Paul Cartledge. His endeavour has produced a carefully and well-researched book, which stands as an important contribution not only to ancient Greek warfare but also to the larger i

The Battle of Plataea in 479 BCE is one of world history's unjustly neglected events. It decisively ended the threat of a Persian conquest of Greece. It involved tens of thousands of combatants, including the largest number of Greeks ever brought together in a common cause. For the Spartans, the driving force behind the Greek victory, the battle was sweet vengeance for their defeat at Thermopylae the year before. Why has this pivotal battle been so overlooked?

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