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

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Author / Creator:	Cartledge, Paul.
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Emblems of antiquity Emblems of antiquity.
Subject:	Plataea, Battle of, Plataiai, Greece, 479 B.C. Greece -- Plataiai.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13539082

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ISBN:	9780199908462 019990846X 9780199747320 0199747326
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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, 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, w.
Other form:	Print version: Cartledge, Paul. After Thermopylae. New York : Oxford University Press, 2013 9780199747320

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