PERSIA AND THE GREEKS, the Defence of the West, c.546 - 478 BC,
by Andrew Robert Burn
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Jacket edges curled; 4" taped jacket tear. VERY GOOD book in GOOD price-clipped dust jacket
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Edward Arnold (Publishers), Maddox Street, London - first edition 1962 hardcover, 5¾" x 8¾", with dust jacket Jacket edges curled; 4" taped jacket tear. VERY GOOD book in GOOD price-clipped dust jacket This is the story of the great Persian menace that threatened Greece in the first half of the fifth century, and its repulse. Our written records for this history are almost entirely Greek, and the Persians not un-naturally tend to appear as barbarians. The author of this text, Andrew Burn, corrects this bias and lets us see that the struggle was between two civilizations, each great in their own way. Part One (7 chapters) 'The Rise of Persia'; Part Two (8 chapters) 'Greece on the Eve'; Part Three (10 chapters) 'The Great Invasion'; and Epilogue. Book has 15 maps.
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- Bookseller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41001
- Title
- PERSIA AND THE GREEKS, the Defence of the West, c.546 - 478 BC,
- Author
- Andrew Robert Burn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, 5¾" x 8¾", with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Jacket edges curled; 4" taped jacket tear. VERY GOOD book in GOOD price-clipped dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Edward Arnold (Publishers), Maddox Street, London - first edition
- Date Published
- 1962
- Pages
- 586 pages
- Keywords
- Ancient History Persia Babylon Medes Cyrus Cambyses Greece Darius Carthage Etruria Sparta Athens Ionia Themistokles Sicily Salamis Attica Mykale Argos Thermopylai Plataia Marathon
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