Persian FireKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 12 juin 2007 - 464 pages A "fresh...thrilling" (The Guardian) account of the Graeco-Persian Wars. In the fifth century B.C., a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold, and men. The terrorist states were Athens and Sparta, eccentric cities in a poor and mountainous backwater: Greece. The story of how their citizens took on the Great King of Persia, and thereby saved not only themselves but Western civilization as well, is as heart-stopping and fateful as any episode in history. Tom Holland’s brilliant study of these critical Persian Wars skillfully examines a conflict of critical importance to both ancient and modern history. |
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... Bardiya , governor of Bactria . This was the largest and most important of the eastern provinces , and even though denied a kidaris , the fluted tiara of royal power , Bardiya had been exempted from paying tribute , a privilege properly ...
... Bardiya , possessed of a menacing power base , would have sought to force further privileges from Cambyses but that would have been to risk the open fury of the new king . Whether tac- itly or not , the two brothers formed a compact .
... Bardiya was not only the son of Cyrus the Great , but also — and just as importantly proficient in all the qualities that the Persians most admired in a king . His physical strength had won him the nickname " Tanyoxarces , " or " Mighty ...
... Bardiya had proved himself his father's son . Like Cyrus , it appears , he could conciliate as well as fight . Sensitive to the resentments of the Persian aristocracy , he was also solicitous of the subject peoples , who were ...
... Bardiya moved quickly to seize it . In July , he was formally invested by the Magi , dressed in the robes of his father and the royal kidaris . At the same time , he married Atossa , Cambyses ' surviving sister - bride . Succession and ...
Table des matières
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SPARTA | 63 |
ATHENS | 99 |
SINGEING THE KING OF PERSIAS BEARD | 143 |
THE GATHERING STORM | 202 |
AT BAY | 260 |
NEMESIS | 307 |
Envoi | 371 |
Bibliography | 402 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial ... Tom Holland Aucun aperçu disponible - 2011 |
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West Tom Holland Aucun aperçu disponible - 2007 |