Thermopylae: The Battle that Changed the World.(Book review)

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Thermopylae

The Battle that Changed the World

Paul Cartledge

Macmillan. xxxv + 300 pp 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN 1 4050 3289 6

MY GREAT-UNCLE, Kenneth Freeman, was a brilliant classicist. The Goddard Scholarship at Winchester was followed at Cambridge by a Browne medal, for a Greek epigram, the Craven University Scholarship and finally, in 1905, by the senior Chancellor's Classical Medal. His health, however, had always been frail and he died in 1906 at the age of twenty-four, having largely completed a book on education in ancient Greece. ...

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