Description
Within the fifth century B.C., a global superpower was once made up our minds to bring truth and order to what it thought to be two terrorist states. The superpower was once Persia, incomparably wealthy in ambition, gold, and men. The terrorist states were Athens and Sparta, eccentric cities in a poor and mountainous backwater: Greece. The tale of the way their citizens took at the Great King of Persia, and thereby saved not only themselves but Western civilization as well, is as heart-stopping and fateful as any episode in history. Tom Holland’s brilliant study of these important Persian Wars skillfully examines a conflict of important importance to both ancient and brand new history.