The Persian wars /
"The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia and city-states of the Hellenic world that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC. The collision between the fractious political world of the Greeks and the enormou...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Modern Library,
[1942]
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| Series: | Modern Library college editions.
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| Summary: | "The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia and city-states of the Hellenic world that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC. The collision between the fractious political world of the Greeks and the enormous empire of the Persians began when Cyrus the Great conquered Ionia in 547 BC. Struggling to rule the independent-minded cities of Ionia, the Persians appointed tyrants to rule each of them. This would prove to be the source of much trouble for the Greeks and Persians alike."--Wikipedia. |
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| Physical Description: | xxii, 714 pages ; 19 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0394309545 9780394309545 0075536404 9780075536406 |