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After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars by Paul Cartledge
$29.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Emblems of Antiquity
The Battle of Plataea in 479 BCE is one of world history's unjustly neglected events. It decisively ended the threat of a Persian conquest of Greece. It involved tens of thousands of combatants, including the largest number of Greeks ever brought together in a common cause. For the Spartans, the drivi ...Show more
Alexander the Great : The Hunt For A New Past by Paul Cartledge
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
The acclaimed new biography of one of history's greatest icons, Alexander the Great.At 18, Alexander had conquered mainland Greece; at 20, he was crowned King of Macedonia; and by 26, he had made himself master of the once mighty Persian Empire.By the time of his death in 323 BC, aged only 33, he was ru ...Show more
Alexander the Great: The Truth Behind the Myth by Paul Cartledge
$36.00 AUD
Category: History
At eighteen Alexander had conquered mainland Greece, was crowned King of Macedonia at twenty and by twenty-six he had made himself master of the once mighty Persian Empire. By the time of his death, aged only thirty-three, in 323BCE he was ruler of the known world and was being worshipped as a god by th ...Show more
Ancient Greece by Paul Cartledge
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
The contribution of the Ancient Greeks to modern western culture is incalculable. In the worlds of art, architecture, myth, literature, and philosophy, the world we live in would be unrecognizably different without the formative influence of Ancient Greek models. Ancient Greek civilization was defined b ...Show more
Ancient Greece: A very short introduction by Paul Cartledge
$18.95 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Very Short Introductions
A highly stimulating Very Short Introduction to the history of Ancient Greek civilization, from the first documented use of the Greek language in about 1400 BCE, through the glories of the Classical and Hellenistic periods, to the foundation of the Byzantine empire in about CE 330.
Democracy - A Life by Paul Cartledge
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
Democracy is either aspired to as a goal or cherished as a birthright by billions of people throughout the world today - and has been for over a century. But what does it mean? And how has its meaning changed since it was first coined in ancient Greece? Democracy: A Life is a biography of the concept, l ...Show more
The Sites of Ancient Greece by Paul Cartledge
$69.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
'The Sites of Ancient Greece' presents 150 of Georg Gerster's most spectacular and evocative photographs of the landscapes and architecture - both ancient and modern - of Greece, a country he has visited and photographed numerous times in his long career. The photographs in this book were taken between ...Show more
The Spartans - An Epic History by Paul Cartledge
$24.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Spartans: An Epic History by Paul Cartledge
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The Spartan legend has inspired and captivated subsequent generations with evidence of its legacy found in both the Roman and British Empires. The Spartans are our ancestors, every bit as much as the Athenians. But while Athens promoted democracy, individualism, culture and society, their great rivals S ...Show more
Thermopylae by Paul Cartledge
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie' Thus did the poet Simonides remember the three hundred elite Spartan warriors who, led by their king, Leonidas, faced the vast, inrushing Persian army at the 'hot gates' of Thermopylae and fought to the death for an ideal dearer ...Show more
Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World by Paul Cartledge
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Thermopylae re-examines a crucial act in one of the greatest dramas in middle eastern history: the invasion of Europe from the "east" by Great King Xerxes of Persia, 150 years before Alexander the Great famously invaded the Asiatic Persian empire from the European "west".Facing the huge inrushing Persia ...Show more