Reading Herodotus : A Guided Tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History / Debra Hamel.
By: Hamel, Debra.
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BookPublisher: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University press, 2012Description: xviii, 329 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781421406558 (hardback : alkaline paper); 9781421406565 (paperback : alkaline paper); 1421406551 (hardback : alkaline paper); 142140656X (paperback : alkaline paper).Subject(s): Herodotus. HistoryDDC classification: 938/.03 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-316) and indexes.
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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