Persia and the Greeks: The Defence of the West, C. 546-478 B.C.

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Stanford University Press, 1984 - 612 pages
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I 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

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
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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.

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