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Thermopylae:

Cartledge, Paul

Thermopylae: The battle that changed the world/ by Paul Cartledge - New York: Vintage Books, c2006 - xxxvii, 313page ill.;

Includes appendixes, glossary, bibliography, references and index

Prologue. setting the awful scene --1. The ancient world in 500 bce: from india to the Aegean --2. The dynamics of empire: Persia of the achaemenids, 485 --3. Hellas: the Hellenic world in 485 --4. Sparta 485: a unique culture and society --5. Thermopylae I: mobilization --6. Thermopylae II: preparations for battle --7. Thermopylae III: the battle --8. The Thermopylae legend I: Antiquity --9. The Thermopylae legend II: from antiquity to modernity --Epilogue: Thermopylae: turning-point in world history.

978-4000-7918-6

BCir. 938.03 / C248t 2006