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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... death , as he and three hundred of his countrymen were wiped out making a suicidal last . stand : * the story had it all . As early as the sixteenth century AD , the great French essayist Michel de Montaigne could argue that although ...
... death of the modern age , only added to the luster of Leonidas , and helped ensure that Thermopylae , for generations afterward , would serve as the model of a martyrdom for liberty . Why , the novelist William Golding asked himself ...
... death by the Spartans themselves might well have proved a blessed relief to their neighbors . Sparta's greatness , as Hitler was well aware , rested upon the merciless exploitation of her neighbors , a demonstration of how to treat ...
... . Perhaps this is hardly surprising . There have been no golden death masks to give a face to their rediscovery - only scholarly tomes and journals . The study of Persia , even more than that of Greece xxii PERSIAN FIRE.
... nor does it end in death and obliteration ; There is only a mixing and then a separating of what was mixed , But by mortal men these processes are named " beginnings . " Empedocles 1 THE KHORASAN HIGHWAY Woe to the Bloody City The.
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 |
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