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Paul Cartledge

After Thermopylae

The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars

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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, what happened on the field of battle and, just as im… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-991155-4
  • EAN: 9780199911554
  • Produktnummer: 14822694
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 3'476 KB
  • Abbildungen: 13 black and white illus., including four maps

Über den Autor


Paul Cartledge is the inaugural A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, and recently the Hellenic Parliament Global Distinguished Professor in the History and Theory of Democracy at New York University. His previous books include Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction, Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World, and The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece. He is an honorary citizen of modern Sparta and holds the Gold Cross of the Order of Honor awarded by the President of Greece.

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