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

From: Contemporary Review | Date: September 22, 2007 | Copyright information

Thermopylae: The Battle that Changed the World. Paul Cartledge. Macmillan. [pounds sterling]20.00. xxxv + 300 pages. ISBN 1-4050-3289-8. Prof. Cartledge has already written popular studies of Alexander the Great and the Spartans. Here he turns his attention to a battle which may not quite have 'changed the world' but which did affect the future history of the Hellenes and of Europe in 480 BC (or what he prefers to call 'BCE' in a bid for spurious scholarship or to please US censors...

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