Reading Herodotus : A Guided Tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History / by Hamel, Debra

Table of Contents: “…How to destroy a mighty empire: the story of Croesus of Lydia -- Cannibals and conquests: the story of Cyrus the Great -- Horny goats and medicinal urine: the Egyptian logos -- Madness and mummies: the reign of Cambyses -- Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Mediterranean: the stories of Polycrates and Periander -- Earless imposters and randy mounts: the early reign of Darius the Great -- The trouble with nomads: Darius' Scythian campaign -- Stuttering colonists and lousy deaths: the Libyan logos -- Tattooed slaves and ousted tyrants: post-Pisistratid Athens and the Ionian revolt -- Miltiades, madness, and Marathon: the first Persian War -- Feats of engineering and doomed valor: the Second Persian War to the Battle of Thermopylae -- Trial by trireme: the Battles at Artemisium and Salamis -- Concluding scenes: the Battles of Plataea and Mycale and the siege of Sestus…”
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Greek warfare : from the Battle of Marathon to the conquests of Alexander the Great /

Table of Contents: “…Battle of Aegospotami -- Agesilaus II -- Agis III -- Alcibiades -- Alexander the Great -- Amphipolis -- Anabasis -- Antipater -- Battles of Artemisium -- Artillery -- Athens -- Bactria -- Brasidas -- Greek Cavalry -- Persian Cavalry -- Battle of Chaeronea -- Cimon -- Cleon -- Conon of Athens -- Corinth -- League of Corinth -- Corinthian War -- Darius I -- Darius III -- Delian League -- Battle of Delium -- Dionysius I -- Epameinondas -- Battle of Eurymedon River -- Battle of Gaugamela -- Siege of Gaza -- Battle of Granicus River -- Causes of Greco-Persian wars -- Consequences of Greco-Persian wars -- Greco-Persian wars, overview -- Hellenic Alliance -- Herodotus -- Battle of the Hydaspes -- Ionian revolt -- Iphicrates -- Battle of Issus -- Jason of Pherae -- King's peace -- Battle of Leuctra -- Long walls -- Lysander -- Macedon -- Battles of Mantinea -- Battle of Marathon -- Mardonius -- Mercenaries -- Miltiades the Younger -- Mutiny -- Battle of Mycale -- Nicias -- Pilopidas -- Peloponnesian League -- Causes of Peloponnesian war -- Consequences of Peloponnesian war -- Peloponnesian war, overview -- Peltasts -- Penteconter -- Pericles -- Persian empire -- Hoplite Phalanx -- Macedonian Phalanx -- Philip II of Macedon -- Piraeus -- Battle of Plataea -- Sacred wars.…”
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