Persia and the Greeks: The Defence of the West, C. 546-478 B.C. |
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Avis d'utilisateur - andratozo - LibraryThingI found this a fascinating but difficult book. Academic, knowledgeable, dense, detailed, sort of assuming you are already familiar with Herodotos and the history of the period. On the other hand, it ... Consulter l'avis complet
Table des matières
| 1 | |
| 21 | |
| 36 | |
| 48 | |
| 54 | |
| 63 | |
From Cambyses to Darius | 81 |
Darius the Great | 96 |
Xerxes Marches | 313 |
The Fall of Northern Greece | 337 |
Xerxes Invasion | 340 |
Pray to the Winds | 378 |
Too Few and Too Late | 406 |
The Razors Edge | 423 |
The Battle of Salamis | 439 |
The Battle of Salamis | 450 |
The Campaigns of Darius 5221 | 101 |
The Persians enter Europe | 127 |
Carthage Etmria and the Western Greeks | 143 |
Greeks Latins and Etruscan | 161 |
Sparta and Athens | 170 |
Revolt in Ionia | 193 |
494400 | 224 |
Kleomenes crushes Argos | 228 |
Marathon | 236 |
The Plain of Marathon | 244 |
4896 | 258 |
Themistokles and Athens 488i | 284 |
Victory in the West | 476 |
Winter of Discontent | 488 |
The Boiotian Border | 499 |
Crowning Mercy | 509 |
The Battle of Plataia | 518 |
EPILOGUE | 547 |
Advance of the Greek fleet Samos liberated 547 Battle | 554 |
Egyptian Expedition 560Disaster in Egypt halts Athens | 563 |
POSTSCRIPT | 587 |
Index to Postscript | 611 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Persia and the Greeks: the defence of the West, c.546-478 B.C. Andŕew Robert Burn Affichage d'extraits - 1962 |
Persia and the Greeks: The Defence of the West, C. 546-478 B.C. Andrew Robert Burn Affichage d'extraits - 1984 |
Persia and the Greeks: The Defence of the West, C. 546-478 B.C. Andrew Robert Burn Affichage d'extraits - 1963 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Achaemenid Aegean Aeschylus Aigina allies already ancient appears Argos Aristagoras Aristeides army Artaphernes Artemision Asia Asopos Athenians Athens Attica Babylon Babylonian barbarians battle Cambyses campaign Carthage Carthaginians cavalry century coast command contingents Corinth Cyrus D.S. xi Damaratos Darius Datis Decree defeated Delphi doubt Egypt empire enemy Ephoros Eretria Etruscan Euboia evidence exiles expedition fact father fighting fleet force Gelon give Greece Greek Herodotos Hippias Hippokrates Histiaios Hydarnes infantry inscription Ionians island king Kleisthenes Kleomenes Ktesias land later Leonidas Lyric Age Marathon marched Mardonios Medes Miletos Miltiades mountain Nabonidus Olmstead oracle Pausanias Peloponnesian perhaps Persian Phoenicians Plataia Plut Plutarch political Polyainos position presumably probably revolt sailed Salamis Samians Sardis satrap says Herodotos seems sent ships Sicily Sparta squadron story temple Themistokles Thermopylai Thessaly Thucydides took tradition triremes Troizen troops tyrant victory viii Xerxes Zankle
Fréquemment cités
Page 314 - ARISE, shine; for thy light is come, And the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And gross darkness the people: But the Lord shall arise upon thee, And his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, And kings to the brightness of thy rising.
Page 57 - O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; Happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Page 105 - For thus saith the Lord of Hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Page 315 - Surely the isles shall wait for me, And the ships of Tarshish first, To bring thy sons from far, Their silver and their gold with them, Unto the name of the Lord thy God, And to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
Page 50 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry ? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Page 30 - And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
Page 32 - Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.
Page 57 - Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people ; but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
Page 59 - I am Cyrus, King of the world, the great King, the mighty King, King of Babylon, King of Sumer and Akkad, King of the four quarters of the world, son of Cambyses, the great King, King of Anshan...
Page 32 - For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.

