The Greek Wars
The Failure of Persia
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:31st Mar '05
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The Greek Wars treats of the whole course of Persian relations with the Greeks from the coming of Cyrus in the 540s down to Alexander the Great's defeat of Darius III in 331 BC. Cawkwell discusses from a Persian perspective major questions such as why Xerxes' invasion of Greece failed, and how important a part the Great King played in Greek affairs in the fourth century. Cawkwell's views are at many points original: in particular, his explanation of how and why the Persian invasion of Greece failed challenges the prevailing orthodoxy, as does his view of the importance of Persia in Greek affairs for the two decades after the King's Peace. Persia, he concludes, was destroyed by Macedonian military might but moral decline had no part in it; the Macedonians who had subjected Greece were too good an army, but their victory was not easy.
A thorough reassessment of traditionally held beliefs about Greek-Persian relations...This work joins the serious works on Achaemenid history that scholars must consult * Matthew Walters, Journal of the American Oriental Society *
For Achaemenid specialists from a classical background, non-Greek material has an exotic allure - and a greater potential for producing genuinely new evidence. But critical understanding of the comparatively familiar can be just as challenging, and Cawkwell is a master of that art. * Christopher Tuplin, Journal of Hellenic Studies *
...[a] remarkable book, the work of a choice and master historian ... It is a book to be savoured. not read through fastat one go. * The Classical Review *
a new book by one of the great figures of Greek history of the last half-century ... is not only highly readable but also provides bracing insights to any number of questions in Greek-Persian relations * Thomas Harrison, Green and Rome *
...detailed and wide ranging * Tom Holland, Times Literary Supplement *
The Greek Wars is the fruit of many decades' study - and it shows. * Tom Holland, Times Literary Supplement *
...revisionist history at its very best...the most insightful and comprehensive analysis to date of Greek and Persian interaction * John Marincola, Classical Journal *
ISBN: 9780198148715
Dimensions: 224mm x 146mm x 24mm
Weight: 1g
328 pages