Athens Burning Garland Robert
Between June 480 and August 479 BC, tens of thousands of Athenians evacuated, following King Xerxes' victory at the Battle of Thermopylae. Women and children were sent to one safe haven, the elderly to another, while all men of military age were conscripted into the fleet. A… Celý popis ↓
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Athens Burning Garland Robert
Between June 480 and August 479 BC, tens of thousands of Athenians evacuated, following King Xerxes' victory at the Battle of Thermopylae. Women and children were sent to one safe haven, the elderly to another, while all men of military age were conscripted into the fleet. Abandoning their homes and ancestral tombs in the wake of the invading Persian army, they sought refuge abroad.
In Athens Burning, Robert Garland explores the reasons behind the decision to abandon Attica, the peninsular region of Greece that includes Athens, while analyzing the consequences, both material and psychological, of the resulting invasion.Garland introduces readers to the contextual background of the Greco-Persian wars, which include the famous Battle of Marathon. During this difficult year of exile, the city of Athens was set on fire not once, but twice. He describes the various stages of
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