Umfang:
XVIII, 329 S. :
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Ill., Kt.
ISBN:
978-1-421-40655-8
,
978-1-421-40656-5
,
1-421-40655-1
,
1-421-40656-X
Inhalt:
How to destroy a mighty empire: the story of Croesus of Lydia -- Cannibals and conquests: the story of Cyrus the Great -- Horny goats and medicinal urine: the Egyptian logos -- Madness and mummies: the reign of Cambyses -- Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Mediterranean: the stories of Polycrates and Periander -- Earless imposters and randy mounts: the early reign of Darius the Great -- The trouble with nomads: Darius' Scythian campaign -- Stuttering colonists and lousy deaths: the Libyan logos -- Tattooed slaves and ousted tyrants: post-Pisistratid Athens and the Ionian revolt -- Miltiades, madness, and Marathon: the first Persian War -- Feats of engineering and doomed valor: the Second Persian War to the Battle of Thermopylae -- Trial by trireme: the Battles at Artemisium and Salamis -- Concluding scenes: the Battles of Plataea and Mycale and the siege of Sestus
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Altertumswissenschaften
Schlagwort(e):
ca. 485 v. Chr.-424 v. Chr. Historiae Herodotus
