By Peter Green
The lengthy and sour fight among the good Persian Empire and the fledgling Greek states reached its excessive element with the intense Greek victory at Salamis in 480 B.C. The remarkable sea conflict banished perpetually the threat of Persian invasion and career. Peter eco-friendly brilliantly retells this historical second, evoking the total dramatic sweep of occasions that the Persian offensive set in movement. the big Greek victory, regardless of the Greeks’ inferior numbers, opened the way in which for the historical evolution of the Greek states in a weather of creativity, independence, and democracy, person who supplied a version and an suggestion for hundreds of years to come.
Green’s money owed of either Persian and Greek ideas are transparent and persuasive; both convincing are his daily info concerning the lives of squaddies, statesmen, and traditional voters. He has first-hand wisdom of the land and sea he describes, in addition to complete command of unique assets and smooth scholarship. With a brand new foreword, The Greco-Persian Wars is a e-book that fans of good old writing will greet with pleasure.
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Young boys and girls were sent off to servitude as palace eunuchs and members of the Royal Harem. The Ionian Revolt was over, and the invasion of mainland Greece had, by that fact alone, become inevitable. The most interesting casualty of this debacle was an enigmatic Athenian aristocrat named Miltiades. In about 555 his uncle had been sent out by Peisistratus - the Athenian tyrant, Hippias's father - to rule the Thracian Chersonese, the long peninsula which forms the European side of the Dardanelles.
Outside Pasargadae his troops mutinied, and turned him over to Cyrus. This was in 550. Cyrus proceeded to capture the Median capital, Ecbatana, which * Herzfeld (see Bibliography) has recently argued that Parsa's large eastern expansion was already an accomplished fact. His speculations are intriguing (Kambujiwa indeed sounds like an Indian name) but not conclusive. 6 DARIUS AND THE WEST yielded him a fabulous amount of booty. From now on Media lost its independence, and in fact became the first satrapy of the new Persian empire.
The Queen Mother Atossa, Darius's widow, asks a Royal Councillor various questions concerning Athens, and finally (as one might expect from a dowager in her position) quizzes him on the Athenian power-structure, which she assumes to be a replica, mutatis mutandis, of that at Susa. ' she asks. ' This to Atossa suggests incompetent anarchy, a view which the Athenian demos, in its more perverse moments, might seem to confirm. ' - a feed-line if ever there was one. 'So well,' the Councillor tells her, 'that they destroyed the great and magnificent army of Darius'.