After Thermopylae : the oath of Plataea and the end of the Graeco-Persian Wars / Paul Cartledge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cartledge, Paul.

Series:

Emblems of Antiquity

Emblems of antiquity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plataea, Battle of, Plataiai, Greece, 479 B.C.

Greece--History--Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C--Campaigns.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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? In After Thermopylae, Paul Cartledge masterfully reopens one of the great puzzles of ancient Greece to discover, as much as possible, w

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Maps and Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Maps; Time line; Chapter One: INTRODUCTION: ARMS AND THE MEN; Chapter Two: THE OATH OF PLATAEA: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS; Chapter Three: THE PLATAEA OATH AS A DOCUMENT OF ANCIENT GREEK RELIGION; Chapter Four: THE PERSIAN WARS: MAKING HISTORY ON OATH WITH HERODOTUS; Chapter Five: THE FACE OF THE BATTLE OF PLATAEA; Chapter Six: THE GREEKS INVENT THE PERSIAN WARS: THE MYTHOLOGY AND COMMEMORATION OF PLATAEA; Chapter Seven: CONCLUSION: THE LEGACY OF PLATAEA; Further Reading; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K

LM; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; X; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-991155-X

1-299-46702-4

0-19-990846-X

OCLC:

839863021