The Great Persian War and Its Preliminaries

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Author

Grundy, G. B. (George Beardoe), 1861-1948

Title

The great Persian War and its preliminaries : A study of the evidence, literary and topographical

Original Publication

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901.

Language

English

LoC Class

DF: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Greece

Subject

Greece -- History -- Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C.

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 72704

Release Date

January 13, 2024

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE GREAT PERSIAN WAR AND ITS PRELIMINARIES;
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.NOTE.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
6. 6.MAPS.
7. 7.CHAPTER I. GREEK AND PERSIAN.
8. 8.CHAPTER II. PERSIAN AND GREEK IN ASIA. THE SCYTHIAN EXPEDITION. — The Ethnic Frontier.
9. 9.CHAPTER III. THE IONIAN REVOLT.
10. 10.CHAPTER IV. PERSIAN OPERATIONS IN EUROPE: B.C. 493–490. MARATHON.
11. 11.CHAPTER V. THE ENTR’ACTE: B.C. 490–480.
12. 12.CHAPTER VI. THE MARCH OF THE PERSIAN ARMY. PREPARATIONS IN GREECE.
13. 13.CHAPTER VII. THERMOPYLÆ.
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII. ARTEMISIUM.
15. 15.APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VIII.
16. 16.CHAPTER IX. SALAMIS.
17. 17.CHAPTER X. FROM SALAMIS TO PLATÆA.
18. 18.CHAPTER XI. THE CAMPAIGN OF PLATÆA. — Appendix Note 1.—The Account of the Battle given by Diodorus. — Appendix Note 2.—The Account of the Battle given in Plutarch’s “Aristides.” — Appendix Note 3.—Note on Platæa.
19. 19.CHAPTER XII. MYKALE AND SESTOS.
20. 20.CHAPTER XIII. THE WAR AS A WHOLE.
21. 21.CHAPTER XIV. HERODOTUS AS THE HISTORIAN OF THE GREAT WAR.
22. 22.INDEX. — Footnotes.
23. 23.Transcriber’s Notes — Corrections

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