03046nam 2200601Ia 450 991045240770332120200520144314.00-19-991155-X1-299-46702-40-19-990846-X(CKB)2550000001019452(EBL)1173599(OCoLC)839863021(SSID)ssj0000861134(PQKBManifestationID)12342642(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000861134(PQKBWorkID)10915121(PQKB)10164955(MiAaPQ)EBC1173599(Au-PeEL)EBL1173599(CaPaEBR)ebr10685266(CaONFJC)MIL477952(EXLCZ)99255000000101945220130329d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAfter Thermopylae[electronic resource] the oath of Plataea and the end of the Graeco-Persian Wars /Paul CartledgeNew York Oxford University Press20131 online resource (234 p.)Emblems of antiquityDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-974732-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; List of Maps and Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Maps; Time line; Chapter One: INTRODUCTION: ARMS AND THE MEN; Chapter Two: THE OATH OF PLATAEA: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS; Chapter Three: THE PLATAEA OATH AS A DOCUMENT OF ANCIENT GREEK RELIGION; Chapter Four: THE PERSIAN WARS: MAKING HISTORY ON OATH WITH HERODOTUS; Chapter Five: THE FACE OF THE BATTLE OF PLATAEA; Chapter Six: THE GREEKS INVENT THE PERSIAN WARS: THE MYTHOLOGY AND COMMEMORATION OF PLATAEA; Chapter Seven: CONCLUSION: THE LEGACY OF PLATAEA; Further Reading; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; KLM; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; X; ZThe 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, wEmblems of AntiquityPlataea, Battle of, Plataiai, Greece, 479 B.CGreeceHistoryPersian Wars, 500-449 B.CCampaignsElectronic books.Plataea, Battle of, Plataiai, Greece, 479 B.C.938/.03Cartledge Paul176602MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452407703321After Thermopylae258066UNINA