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After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars by Paul Cartledge
Category: Popular History | Series: Emblems of Antiquity
The Battle of Plataea in 479 BCE is one of world history's unjustly neglected events. It decisively ended the threat of a Persian conquest of Greece. It involved tens of thousands of combatants, including the largest number of Greeks ever brought together in a common cause. For the Spartans, the drivi ...Show more
Alexander The Great : The Truth Behind The Myth by Cartledge Paul
Category: Ancient History
Alexander the Great: The Truth Behind the Myth by Paul Cartledge
Category: History
At eighteen Alexander had conquered mainland Greece, was crowned King of Macedonia at twenty and by twenty-six he had made himself master of the once mighty Persian Empire. By the time of his death, aged only thirty-three, in 323BCE he was ruler of the known world and was being worshipped as a god by th ...Show more
Ancient Greece: A very short introduction by Paul Cartledge
Category: Popular History | Series: Very Short Introductions
A highly stimulating Very Short Introduction to the history of Ancient Greek civilization, from the first documented use of the Greek language in about 1400 BCE, through the glories of the Classical and Hellenistic periods, to the foundation of the Byzantine empire in about CE 330.
Democracy - A Life by Paul Cartledge
Category: History
Democracy is either aspired to as a goal or cherished as a birthright by billions of people throughout the world today - and has been for over a century. But what does it mean? And how has its meaning changed since it was first coined in ancient Greece? Democracy: A Life is a biography of the concept, l ...Show more
The Greeks - A Portrait of Self and Others by Paul Cartledge
Category: History | Series: Opus Ser.
Who were the Classical Greeks? This book provides an original and challenging answer by exploring how Greeks (adult, male, citizen) defined themselves in opposition to a whole series of others (non-Greeks, women, slaves, non-citizens, and gods) as presented by supposedly objective historiansof the time ...Show more
The Sites of Ancient Greece by Paul Cartledge
Category: Art and Design
'The Sites of Ancient Greece' presents 150 of Georg Gerster's most spectacular and evocative photographs of the landscapes and architecture - both ancient and modern - of Greece, a country he has visited and photographed numerous times in his long career. The photographs in this book were taken between ...Show more
The Spartans: An Epic History by Paul Cartledge
Category: History
The Spartan legend has inspired and captivated subsequent generations with evidence of its legacy found in both the Roman and British Empires. The Spartans are our ancestors, every bit as much as the Athenians. But while Athens promoted democracy, individualism, culture and society, their great rivals S ...Show more
The SpartansThe World of the Warrior-heroes of Ancient Greece, from Utopia to Crisis and Collapse by Paul Cartledge
Category: History
The Spartans were a society of warrior-heroes who were the living exemplars of such core values as duty, discipline, self-sacrifice, and extreme toughness. This book, written by one of the world’s leading experts on Sparta, traces the rise and fall of Spartan society and explores the tremendous influenc ...Show more
Thebes - The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece by Paul Cartledge
Category: Audio
According to myth, the city was founded when Kadmos sowed dragon's teeth into the ground and warriors sprang forth, ready not only to build the fledgling city but to defend it from all-comers. It was Hercules' birthplace and the home of the Sphinx, whose riddle Oedipus solved, winning the Theban crown a ...Show more