The Persian Wars - A.R. Burn - Folio Society - 2008 1st ed. - VGC

The Persian Wars - A.R. Burn - Folio Society - 2008 1st ed. - VGC

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The Persian Wars - A.R. Burn - Folio Society - 2008 1st ed. - VGC
  • The Persian Wars - A.R. Burn - Folio Society - 2008 1st ed. - VGC
  • The Persian Wars - A.R. Burn - Folio Society - 2008 1st ed. - VGC
  • The Persian Wars - A.R. Burn - Folio Society - 2008 1st ed. - VGC
  • The Persian Wars - A.R. Burn - Folio Society - 2008 1st ed. - VGC
  • The Persian Wars - A.R. Burn - Folio Society - 2008 1st ed. - VGC
  • The Persian Wars - A.R. Burn - Folio Society - 2008 1st ed. - VGC
  • The Persian Wars - A.R. Burn - Folio Society - 2008 1st ed. - VGC
  • The Persian Wars - A.R. Burn - Folio Society - 2008 1st ed. - VGC
  • The Persian Wars - A.R. Burn - Folio Society - 2008 1st ed. - VGC
  • The Persian Wars - A.R. Burn - Folio Society - 2008 1st ed. - VGC
  • The Persian Wars - A.R. Burn - Folio Society - 2008 1st ed. - VGC
  • The Persian Wars - A.R. Burn - Folio Society - 2008 1st ed. - VGC
The Persian Wars - A.R. Burn - Folio Society - 2008 1st ed. - VGC
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The Persian Wars

A.R. Burn
£23.99
Edition year 2008
Printing year 2008
First edition Yes
Binding Cloth
Weight 2 Kg
Pages 592
Dimensions 25.3 × 17.7 cm
Condition Very Good
Condition notes In very good overall condition.

Edition details

The Persian Wars: The Greeks and the Defence of the West 546-478 BC by Andrew Robert Burn. Introduced by Simon Hornblower. Postscript by D.M.Lewis. Bound in image blocked brown cloth. 592pp.

About the book

In this volume the writer concludes a program of work undertaken many years ago, attempting to produce a readable account of the early age of Greece, from the age of the Trojan War (in Minoans, Philistines and Greeks, 1930) and the late prehistoric (in The World of Hesiod, 1936; both long out of print, and the former largely out of date), through The Lyric Age of Greece (1960), to the eve of the rise of the Athenian Empire. The rise of Greek civilisation was described in the last-named book; in the present work we begin with that of the Persians, one of the great imperial peoples of history, who deserve more sympathetic treatment than, from our inevitably and rightly phil-Hellenic point of view, they have sometimes received. The Persian Wars themselves, too, embrace much more than the great culminating episode of Xerxes' invasion, which Thucydides dismissed as 'settled by two battles at sea and two on land'. He would have been more just if he had compared that, not to the whole length of the Peloponnesian War, but to the one episode of the Sicilian expedition. The Persian wars too, together with the simultaneous struggle against Persia's allies, the Phoenicians, were a prolonged though intermittent series of campaigns, ranging in time from Cyrus' conquest of Ionia in 546 to Kimon's last campaign in Cyprus in 450, and in space extending throughout the whole length of the Mediterranean. To trace the course and connections of these campaigns, together with the rise, just in time to be the decisive factor, of the democracy of Athens and of its sea-power, is a task the more worth attempting for the fact that it has not been the subject of a full-length study since that of Grundy, published in 1899.
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