ISBN: 0 285 62151 3
Godina izdanja: 1974
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

ALAN LLOYD

MARATHON - The Story of Civilizations on Collision Course

Izdavač - Souvenir Press, London

Godina - 1974

212 strana

22 cm

ISBN - 0 285 62151 3

Povez - Tvrd

Stanje - Kao na slici, tekst bez podvlačenja



SADRŽAJ:
PART ONE: Concerning Little States
1 The Runner
2 Prelude
3 The Myth
4 Tyrants, among Others
5 The City
6 Slaves and Citizens
7 Spartans
8 Pythoness and Goat-God

PART TWO: Where Empires Throve
9 The Land
10 Mother of Harlots
11 The Wrath of Nineveh
12 The Prophet
13 Chariots Shall Rage
14 The Persian
15 Hungry Giant
16 Darius Disposes

PART THREE: In Which the Despot Snarls
17 The Royal Foot
18 A Bird, a Mouse, a Frog
19 The Rebels
20 `Remember the Athenians!`
21 Darius Devises
22 Trial by Politics
23 The Armada

PART FOUR: A Time for Heroes
24 One Athens
25 Confrontation
26 The War Council
27 `Strike for Freedom!`
28 Deadly Toil

Postscript
Selected Bibliography


`Helmets gleaming, crests bristling, the Autumn sun reflected in their breastplates, the citizens of Athens move down the hillside in their ten tribes, picking their footing on the dry slopes, smothering the goat tracks . . . the distant swarm spreading from the Persian camp is alien flesh, to be grappled and smashed if the Greeks are not to perish and their city become a slave colony for the East.

Alan Lloyd`s book of popular history reads on occasion like a suspense thriller, as he tells of the clash between two great civilisations at Marathon, the battle which in so many ways settled the course of history for the Western world. On a plain twenty-two miles from Athens, 9,000 Greek citizens, part-time warriors only, defended their city against Darius and his army of 30,000. The Persians had already subdued the Greek colonies in Asia Minor and Thrace, and intended to install Hippias as puppetking in Athens. A yet fragile Athenian democracy might also have to face insurrection from within.

The author sets the historical background to this clash of cultures, contrasting the might of the ostentatious Persian empire with the evolving institutions of the Greek city-state. Then, on the battlefield, the action is fast and immediate, as the Greeks win against all odds and set a precedent for the later battles that kept the Eastern empire out of Europe and ensured that it would be the Greek way of life that would set the patterns for Western culture.

This is an impeccably researched and vividly written book on a subject that can still yield excitement after more than 2,000 years.`



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