After Thermopylae : the oath of Plataea and the end of the Graeco-Persian Wars / Paul Cartledge.

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 together in a common cause. For the Spartans, th...

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Main Author: Cartledge, Paul
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Series:Emblems of antiquity.
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505 0 |a Introduction: arms and the men -- The Oath of Plataea: texts and contexts -- The Plataea Oath as a document of ancient Greek religion -- The Persian Wars: making history on oath with Herodotus -- The face of the Battle of Plataea -- The Greeks invent the Persian Wars: the mythology and commemoration of Plataea -- Conclusion: the legacy of Plataea. 
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