| Description |
1 online resource. |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
Emblems of antiquity
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Emblems of antiquity.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: arms and the men -- The Oath of Plataea: texts and contexts -- The Plataea Oath as a document of ancient Greek religion -- The Persian Wars: making history on oath with Herodotus -- The face of the Battle of Plataea -- The Greeks invent the Persian Wars: the mythology and commemoration of Plataea -- Conclusion: the legacy of Plataea. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Plataea, Battle of, Plataiai, Greece, 479 B.C.
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Battle of Plataea (Plataiai, Greece : 479 B.C.) |
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece. |
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Greece -- Plataiai. |
| Chronological Term |
479-479 B.C |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cartledge, Paul. After Thermopylae. New York : Oxford University Press, 2013 9780199747320 (DLC) 2013010296 (OCoLC)813930718 |
| ISBN |
9780199908462 (electronic book) |
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019990846X (electronic book) |
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9780199747320 |
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0199747326 |
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