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Themistocles : the powerbroker of Athens / Jeffrey A. Smith.
Van Pelt Library DF226.T45 S65 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Jeffrey A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Statesmen--Greece--Athens--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- Greece--Athens.
- Politics and government.
- Themistocles, approximately 524 B.C.-approximately 459 B.C.
- Themistocles.
- Greece--History--Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C.
- Greece.
- History.
- Greece--Politics and government--To 146 B.C.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 284 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (color), maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Barnsley : Pen & Sword Military, 2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Dark Horse Who Moulded Democracy
- ch. 1 From Obscurity to Marathon
- ch. 2 The Rise of the Subtle Serpent of Athens
- ch. 3 Of Rivalries and Ostracisms
- pt. II An Amulet of Saving Virtue
- ch. 4 The Persian Invasion & the Hellenic League
- ch. 5 Artemisium: The Cornerstone of Democracy
- ch. 6 Engineering Salamis: The Final Stand of Greece
- ch. 7 The Aristeia at Salamis
- pt. III The Hegemon of Athens and Greece
- ch. 8 A Defeated Persia, A Wounded Tnemistocles
- ch. 9 Sparta Provoked
- ch. 10 A Reckoning in the Athenian Golden Age
- pt. IV Themistocles Among the Dragons
- ch. 11 The Ostracism of the Saviour of Athens
- ch. 12 Themistocles of Persia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Electronic version: SMITH, JEFFREY. THEMISTOCLES.
- ISBN:
- 1526790459
- 9781526790453
- OCLC:
- 1190815954
- Publisher Number:
- 99988389759
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