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Readers in the west tend to take this for granted: the persians were the bad guys, the greeks the good guys (as well as being t... Read More
But, as happened with the ionians and other greek city states, they might have collaborated with the persians in an uneasy truce.
This is epic history told by a fine scholar with the gifts of a novelist.
Competitiveness
Holland serves it up to us in awesomesauce.
Hence i have a professional interest in the area.
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- This product had a total of 394 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 29 2020.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The book has a very readable account of the multiple persian invasions of greece the political development of democracy in athens and the formation of alliances between greek city states against or with the persian invaders
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Fills in a lot that standard histories of the persian wars told from the greek perspective leave out
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
That being said the book is a long read and at times i felt that the author would spin off on a topical tangent which for me somewhat confused the chronology of the events
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Beginning with the war against the assyrian empire by a handful of tribes in the mountains who called themselves ‘aryans’ the book is also a history of persia beginning with darius and of sparta and athens roughly starting with solon and cleisthenes who brought about the first democratic reforms in athens
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Athenian democracy was the result of economic and social conflict that had greatly increased inequality and weakened the city state and the first constitutional system was a desperate attempt to curb these excesses
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The idea is that since the next two hundred years or so from 480 bc onwards saw the flowering of athenian democracy and the coming of men like socrates plato aristotle aeschylus euclid and others who laid the foundations of science democracy and philosophy had greece lost the wars all of the ensuing history of western civilization might have been utterly different and greatly impoverished
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Not only is history unpredictable but it ignores the fact that darius xerxes and the persians were not genocidal maniacs who would have killed every greek man woman and child as a matter of course had they won
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
In addition sometimes the tyrants who ruled the greek city states themselves were so corrupt cruel and incompetent that people welcomed outside interference
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