"ancient history"
"Persian War"
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Author_Debra Hamel
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Darius
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Herodotus
Marathon
Persia
Salamis
Themistocles
Thermopylae
Xerxes
Product details
- ISBN 9781421406565
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Nov 2012
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Debra Hamel's book is a lively introduction to "The History of the Persian Wars", Herodotus' account of Persia's expansion under four kings-Cyrus, Cambyses, Darius, and Xerxes - and its eventual collision with the city - states of Greece. "The History" can be a long slog for modern readers, but it is full of salacious tales about sex, violent death, divine prophecies, and cannibals. Following the structure of the original work, Hamel leads the reader through a colorful tour of the central stories that compose The History. She highlights the more interesting and important parts of the story while providing readers who are new to "Herodotus" with the background information necessary to appreciate the author's wide-ranging subject matter. At once academic and cheeky, the experience of this book is like "Reading Herodotus" while simultaneously consulting a history of Greece and a scholarly commentary on the text.
Debra Hamel is an independent scholar and the author of Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece.
