The Greek wars : the failure of Persia / George Cawkwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cawkwell, George, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography--Greece--History--To 1500.

Historiography.

Greece--Relations--Iran--Historiography.

Greece.

Iran--Relations--Greece--Historiography.

Iran.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p. )

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'The Greek Wars' deals with the whole course of Persian relations with Greek states from the coming of Cyrus in the mid 6th century B.C. to the defeat of Darius by Alexander the Great at the battle of Gaugamela in 331 B.C. Cawkwell approaches the topic from the Persian perspective.

Contents:

The subjection of the Greeks of Asia

"The lands beyond the sea"

The Ionian revolt

The conquest of Greece

The war in the East Aegean

Peace with Athens, 449-412 BC

The recovery of the Greeks of Asia

From the king's peace to the end of the social war

The end of the Achaemenids

Appendices:

1. Persian and Greek naval warfare : The diekplous

2. Histiaeus

3. Persian armies

4. The Persian army

5. Thermopylae and "the way into' Greece

6. The Themistocles decree

7. The peace of Callias

8. The alleged treaty of Boiotios

9. 366 BC.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-00521-4

1-280-75338-2

9786610753383

0-19-154124-9

1-4237-5502-2

OCLC:

1027138427