96 Pages
by
Routledge
96 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book covers one of the defining periods of European history. The series of wars between the Greeks and the Persian Empire produced the famous battles of Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis, as well as an ill-fated attempt to overthrow the Persian king in 400 BC, which helped to inspire the conquests of Alexander the Great. To tell the story of these momentous events--of the lives of great men... Read more
Chapter 1 The coming of the Persians; Chapter 2 Persia, Sparta and Athens; Chapter 3 Dareios sends an expedition to Greece; Chapter 4 Xerxes' invasion of Greece; Chapter 5 Aristodemos the Spartan; Chapter 6 Persian architecture; Chapter 7 Demokedes and Demaratos; Chapter 8 The Greeks attack the Persian Empire; Chapter 9 The Peloponnesian War;
Biography
Philip de Souza
