TY - BOOK AU - Cartledge, Paul TI - Thermopylae: The battle that changed the world SN - 978-4000-7918-6 U1 - BCir. 938.03 PY - 2006/// CY - --New York PB - Vintage Books N1 - 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 ER -