Marathon

Name: Marathon
ISBN: 9781409114109

Christian Cameron

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The Battle of Marathon in 490 BC was one of history's great turning points. The first time the Greeks managed to defeat the Persians in a pitched battle, it enabled the rise of classical Greek civilisation. As John Stuart Mill famously put it, 'The Battle of Marathon, even as an event in British history, is more important than the Battle of Hastings.' Without it, the modern world as we know it would not exist.

Christian Cameron's epic retelling of the battle will bring it alive, with all of its human drama and tragedy, as never before. The Greeks do not always behave well - in fact, many readers may come to see them as ignorant and bigoted as compared to the multicultural Persians, who for some, actually bring greater freedom - at least for a while. The heroic Militiades, who led the Greeks at Marathon and then died in exile, a ruined man, was a fatally flawed character. His opponent, The Persian King Darius, was guilty of vaulting ambition and hubris, but he combined it with personal integrity and vast generosity. And in the middle, torn between two cultures, one of which has already made him a slave, we find Arimnestos, ancestor of the Kineas of the Tyrant books: nicknamed 'Killer of Men', he will lead a decisive contingent of infantry in the thickest of the battle...

კატეგორია:

Fiction - Historical

ტომი:

წელი:

2011

გამომცემლობა:

Hachette UK

ენა:

english

გვერდები:

400

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