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The battle of Plataiai 479 BC / Andreas Konecny, Nicholas Sekunda (eds.).
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plataea, Battle of, Plataiai, Greece, 479 B.C.
- Greece--History, Military--To 146 B.C.
- Greece.
- Greece--History--Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C.
- Greece--Plataiai.
- Genre:
- History.
- Military history.
- Physical Description:
- 276 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Wien : Phoibos Verlag, 2022.
- Summary:
- Ende August oder Anfang September 2022 jährt sich zum 2500. Mal eine Schlacht, die die Geschichte geprägt hat. 0Der vorliegende Band versammelt die Beiträge mehrerer Spezialisten für griechische und achämenidische (Militär-)Geschichte, die versuchen, ein neues Licht auf dieses viel diskutierte und entscheidende Ereignis der europäischen Geschichte zu werfen.
- Contents:
- Preface
- The road to Plataiai / Andreas Konecny
- Kings and commanders
- Xerxes : Ideology and practice / Ian MacGregor Morris
- Mardonios / Josef Wiesehöfer
- Pausanias, best of men : Politics, propaganda, and memory / Ian MacGregor Morris
- Aristeides the Just? / Ian MacGregor Morris
- Strategy and Tactics
- Greek logistics at Plataiaei and strategical planning during the third invasion of Greece (480-479 BC) / Nicholas Sekunda
- The battle of Plataeiai : Topography and tactics / Andreas Konecny
- The face of battle at Plataiai / Roel Konijnendijk, Paul M. Bardunias
- The Boiotian cavalry / Robert Gaebel
- After the victory
- Commemorating the victory / András Patay-Horváth
- Plataiai : das Scheitern einer Heldenstadt im fünften Jahrhundert v. Chr. / Michael Jung.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9783851612714
- 385161271X
- OCLC:
- 1336487930
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