After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars by Paul Anthony Cartledge

After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars

Paul Anthony Cartledge

240 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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The 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 ...

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