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Thermopylae by Ernle Bradford
epub, mobi |eng | 1980-11-15 | Author:Ernle Bradford [Bradford, Ernle]

There can certainly never have been any possibility of the Spartans having been undecided as to their course: they had been sent to hold the pass to safeguard the fleet ...
( Category: Greece November 5,2015 )
Dictionary of Classical Mythology by March Jennifer R
epub |eng | 2014-05-30 | Author:March, Jennifer R.

Fig. 91. A bull rises from the sea in front of Hippolytus’ chariot, while a Fury brandishes a torch and an old man looks on in horror. Hippolytus’ story is ...
( Category: New Age, Mythology & Occult November 4,2015 )
Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western by Hanson Victor Davis
epub |eng | 1995-05-31 | Author:Hanson, Victor Davis [Hanson, Victor Davis]

Greek hoplite battle between phalanxes before the Peloponnesian War was predictable in time, place, sequence, and aftermath of infantry fighting. This prompts us to ponder just how one particular Greek ...
( Category: Greece November 2,2015 )
A History of the Hellenistic World by R. Malcolm Errington
epub |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:R. Malcolm Errington

II Seleukid Asia When Seleukos III was assassinated in 223 while on campaign against Attalos of Pergamon, his army tried to persuade his uncle Achaios, an experienced man with family ...
( Category: Greece October 27,2015 )
A Smaller history of Greece / From the earliest times to the Roman conquest
epub |eng | 2000-03-01 | Author:Sir William Smith [Smith, Sir William]

CHAPTER XIV THE THIRTY TYRANTS, AND THE DEATH OF SOCRATES, B.C. 404-399. The fall of Athens brought back a host of exiles, all of them the enemies of her democratical ...
( Category: Greece October 12,2015 )
The Birth of Classical Europe by Simon Price
epub |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Simon Price

Carthage has so far made only cameo appearances in the story. It is time to redress the balance, and to start analysis of the relations between Carthage and Rome with ...
( Category: Greece September 8,2015 )
Sparta: Unfit for Empire by Godfrey Hutchinson
epub |eng | 2014-11-16 | Author:Godfrey Hutchinson

Accordingly, throughout the whole area heavy assaults were made, but particularly against the Lakedaimonians, for their terrain was easily assailed and difficult to defend. Great rivalry arose between the two ...
( Category: Greece September 8,2015 )
The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Eric H. Cline
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-04-11 | Author:Eric H. Cline [Cline, Eric H.]

Wilusa and Ahhiyawa In addition, at least one city-state that belonged to the coalition, specifically Wilusa/Wilusiya, continued to exist for another two centuries. During that time, Wilusa not only interacted ...
( Category: Greece September 8,2015 )
Spartans by Kennell Nigel M
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-08 | Author:Kennell, Nigel M.

7 Leotychidas to Lysander Events in Greece had not stood still during Pausanias’ quixotic career in Asia Minor. Leotychidas, Cleomenes’ replacement for Demaratus and victor against the Persians at the ...
( Category: Greece August 19,2015 )
The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece -- and Western Civilization by Barry Strauss
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-06-29 | Author:Barry Strauss [Strauss, Barry]

At first sight, Themistocles’ words are disappointing. Then, on a second look, they reveal the eloquence of simplicity. There may have been no better way to tell the men how ...
( Category: Greece August 19,2015 )
Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City by Mark Adams
epub |eng | 2015-07-16 | Author:Mark Adams [Adams, Mark]

CHAPTER TWENTY Triangulating Pythagoras Plato’s Academy, Athens (ca. 360 BC) If Christos Doumas was correct, the Atlantis tale was solely a literary invention, like the Cave of the Ideas, created ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries July 18,2015 )
Horrible Histories: Groovy Greeks by Deary Terry
azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-11-30 | Author:Deary, Terry [Deary, Terry]

* * * Dear Lucias, I have just heard this strange story which I think might interest you. In Athens there used to be a large and beautiful house which ...
( Category: Greece June 21,2015 )
Dividing the Spoils : The War for Alexander the Great's Empire by Waterfield Robin
mobi |eng | 2011-04-20 | Author:Waterfield, Robin [Waterfield, Robin]

PTOLEMY’S OPPORTUNITY Cassander’s position in Greece was greatly strengthened by his alliances with Polemaeus and Polyperchon. He had given Polyperchon enough troops to make serious trouble for the Antigonids in ...
( Category: Greece June 11,2015 )
The Music of Pythagoras by Kitty Ferguson
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-06-05 | Author:Kitty Ferguson

Plutarch, from a sixteenth-century engraving Of all who thought that Plato derived his ideas from Pythagoras, no other was so convinced and outspoken as Moderatus of Gades, known as the ...
( Category: Greece June 6,2015 )
Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion by Ando Clifford Rüpke Jörg
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Ando, Clifford,Rüpke, Jörg

3. Marcus’s Love Potions: Marking Territory inIrenaeus Ιrenaeus (c. 130 – c. 200 CE), bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, continues and significantly develops the territorialism we have discovered in the ...
( Category: Greece June 1,2015 )

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