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How the West was won This retelling of the epic battles between the Greeks and the Persians sets Peter Jones's pulse racing
; ...origins of the Persian Wars (490-479 BC...between Greeks and Persians at Marathon...form; it covers wars, politics, personalities...the Greeks and Persians came to fight...the triumph of Greek freedom over Persian absolutism...his. When the Persians arrived on ...
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'The Persians' as Antiwar Allegory: Has Blood-Soaked Greek Tragedy Gotten an Extreme Makeover?
; Aeschylus's "The Persians," the oldest extant Greek tragedy, is so spare...what the ancient Persians knew of ancient Greek drama is opaque...Alexander's conquest of the Persian Empire [about 330 B.C.], the influence of Greek culture, including...
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Secrets of a deadly fleetThe hunt for ships used by Greece in Persian Wars is on
; ...fleets of the Persian Wars, seeking...two dozen Greek, Canadian...triremes, Greek and Persian, as well...the Persian Wars. The victorious...evolution.'' The Greek government...wrecks in Greek waters not...from the Persian Wars partly because...
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Mikalson, Jon D. Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars.(Book Review)
; ...information on Greek religion, and as...more about ancient Greek religion than anyone...and Religion in Persian War has two subjects...in the Persian Wars and religion in...during the Persian Wars. This information...the course of the wars. There are ...
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Reaction of Vietnam veterans to the Persian Gulf War.
; The Persian Gulf War had an emotional and psychological...worldwide. For Vietnam veterans, the Persian Gulf War was a reminder of a time in...treating PTSD, the idea that subsequent wars can have a psychologically disturbing...II veterans to the Korean or Vietnam wars. Whether this paucity of ...
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IRAQ: THE AFTERMATH: War calls halt to work on ancient Persian citadel.(News)
; ...excavation of an ancient Persian citadel discovered by a Merseyside...historians learn more about Persian defences. As grain storage...and 4th centuries BC, the Persians conquered a number of Greek citys tates along the coast...new citizens serve in the Persian army and pay fairly ...
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Iran, Iraq Raid More Ships in Persian Gulf; Two Nations Appear Ready to Intensify Their `Tanker War'
; An Iranian gunboat peppered a Greek tanker with rocket-propelled grenades near the Strait of...appeared ready to intensify their so-called "tanker war" in the Persian Gulf. The two nations have attacked more than 155 commercial...challenging several merchant vessels by radio in the southern Persian Gulf, ...
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Square one again in the Gulf; with the tanker war back on, no one is safe - including the U.S. Navy. (Persian Gulf)
; ...attacks shattered a six-week lull in the Persian Gulf tanker war, the motives were plain...has lasted almost as long as both world wars combined. Not only did the raids undermine...international gathering of neutral ships--Greek, Korean, Spanish, Japanese and Italian...
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THE PERSIANS . . . A COMEDY ABOUT WAR WITH FIVE SONGS
; THE PERSIANS . . . A COMEDY ABOUT WAR WITH FIVE SONGS By Hanna Cheek, Rodney...Theatre 31 Perry Street 212-868-4444 SIGHTLINES Aeschylus's The Persians is the only surviving Greek tragedy based on a contemporary event-the operative word being...
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Books: Marathon of misconception WHY THE WEST HAS WON Victor Davis Hanson Faber & Faber, pounds 20, 492pp: Has the `West' always defeated the `East' in battle, ever since the Greeks fought the Persians? Absolutely not, says Frank McLynn. It's smug nonsense for us to rest on such non-existent laurels
; ...armies and battle casualties. He expects us to believe that the Persians still had 250,000 men at the battle of Plataca in 479 BC after...whom Hanson unfairly disparages) are adamant that the entire Persian host cannot have numbered more than 190,000. On the Vietnam...
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