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Thermopylae : the battle that changed the world
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- ISBN: 1585675660
- ISBN: 9781585675661
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Physical Description:
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xxxvii, 313 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. - Publisher: Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2006.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-295) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Setting the awful scene -- The ancient world in 500 BCE: from India to the Aegean -- The dynamics of empire: Persia of the Achaemenids, 485 -- Hellas: the Hellenic world in 485 -- Sparta 485: a unique culture and society -- Thermopylae I: mobilization -- Thermopylae II: preparations for battle -- Thermopylae III: the battle -- The Thermopylae legend I: antiquity -- The Thermopylae legend II: from antiquity to modernity -- Thermopylae: turning-point in world history -- Appendix 1: the invention of history: Herodotus and other ancient sources -- Appendix 2: Herodotus's Persian Muster-lists: a translation -- Appendix 3: Herodotus: antidote to fundamentalism. |
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| Subject: | Thermopylae, Battle of, Greece, 480 B.C Greece -- History -- Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C Thermopylae (Greece) -- History |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Selkirk College.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Castlegar Campus Library | DF 225.5 C37 2006 (Text)
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B001212778 | General | Volume hold | Available | - |
