Xerxes Of Persia

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History at its best
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Par excellence.
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The Greco-Persian Wars
Peter Green
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Popular classicist Peter Green (author of Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.) offers an engrossing narrative of the wars between the Greeks and the Persians. This is real David-and-Goliath material, with the scrappy, feuding city-states of ancient Greece fending off a much larger aggressor. The conflicts themselves are a kind of struggle for the soul of Western civilization: "On the one side, the towering, autocratic figure of the Great King; on the other, the voluntary and imperfect discipline of proudly independent citizens." The Greeks surprisingly fare better in these encounters, and make themselves legends on the plains of Marathon (192 Greek casualties versus 6,400 Persians), during the heroic last stand at Thermopylae, and elsewhere.

The Greco-Persian Wars is full of wonderful stories featuring bravery, cowardice, and treachery. Unlike so many of his fellow historians, Green understands the importance of a dramatic narrative, sometimes employing novelistic techniques to relate what happened. It's not an overstatement to say that the course of Western history might have taken a strikingly unfamiliar turn if these battles had had different outcomes. Green is a natural storyteller, and The Greco-Persian Wars is a delight to read, even for readers who have no background or special interest in the classical world. --John J. Miller

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This is a reissue, with a new introduction and an update to the bibliography, of the original edition, published in 1970 as The Year of Salamis in England and as Xerxes at Salamis in the U.S.
The long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire and the fledgling Greek states reached its high point with the extraordinary Greek victory at Salamis in 480 B.C. The astonishing sea battle banished forever the specter of Persian invasion and occupation. Peter Green brilliantly retells this historic moment, evoking the whole dramatic sweep of events that the Persian offensive set in motion. The massive Greek victory, despite the Greeks' inferior numbers, opened the way for the historic evolution of the Greek states in a climate of creativity, independence, and democracy, one that provided a model and an inspiration for centuries to come.
Green's accounts of both Persian and Greek strategies are clear and persuasive; equally convincing are his everyday details regarding the lives of soldiers, statesmen, and ordinary citizens. He has first-hand knowledge of the land and sea he describes, as well as full command of original sources and modern scholarship. With a new foreword, The Greco-Persian Wars is a book that lovers of fine historical writing will greet with pleasure.

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History at its best.......2007-03-25

History books should be interesting and supported by facts. Peter Green's Greco-Persian Wars scores well on both counts. He combines the historical fact with a narrative that maintains the reader's interest.

Excellent historical book.......2007-03-21

The book writes like a story. It is beautifully written and well researched. Anyone who is wanting to know the clash of the Greeks and the Persians, the battle of Marathon, the Hot Gates (a.k.a., the famous battle for the West) and the aftermath that leads to rising power of the great Greek empire, this is a must book. Mr. Green truly knows his Greek history and is not shy in making the narrative alive and reader friendly. Five stars all the way!

Par excellence........2007-01-26

This is quite simply THE book to read to thoroughly understand the conflict between Classical Greece and Imperial Persia. It rivals Kagan's "The Peloponnesian War" in depth and detail. And while not quite the break neck read of Holland's "Persian Fire" it compensates with an eminently readable style and makes Cartledges's "Thermopylae" look anemic and cadaverous even given the significantly more limited scope of the latter's work.

Green does an exceptional job of comparing and contrasting the ancient sources of information on the period, Herodotus, Plutarch, Aeschylus etc. and weaves them together with the modern scholarship of Burn and Pritchett etc. while injecting his own theories to provide a narrative that brings both the players and their times vividly to life.

Green takes Herodotus to task for bias and obvious propagandistic nonsense early and often and with common sense and logic corrects many of the more egregious errors of the primary sources, in particular the size of Xerxes army, specifically the probable confusion between chiliarchs (commander of 1,000 men) and myriarchs (commander of 10,000 men). Using Munro and Maurice among others he corrects the likely decimal error in Herodotus's calculation of the size of Xerxes army. Reducing it from a phantasmagorical 1.7 million men to more credible 170,000 infantry with another 40,000 cavalry, quisling Greeks and miscellaneous others.

Add in no small amount of irreverent levity and you have the perfect tract on what Thomas Cahill (How the Irish Saved Civilization) refers to as a "hinge" of history.

In two words, BUY IT!

Excellent and Epic.......2006-12-14

I recently bought a copy of Prof. Green's book The Greco-Persian wars and I could not put it down. The book is amazing and well-worth every penny I spent on it. Just the account of Thermopylae had me on the edge of my seat and filled with excitment and pride in what these barve 300 Spartans and their allies did for Greece and western civilization. Green's love-affair with Heroditus is quite evident and was a great use to him in this book. I loved Green's Alexander to Actium and I greatly love the Greco-Persian Wars. Buy this book and you will not be disappointed. I highly recommend this book

Brilliant.......2006-10-27

Briliiantly written. The story moves with pace and the author is able to generate an amazing atmosphere of suspense in the lead up to each battle. The details of the surrounding political crisis enable the reader to get a sensation of what each side was thinking.

On the downside the maps are terrible. In fact I would agree with one of the other reviewers to say they are the worst I have seen in a history book.

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Awe-Inspiring
book 5 ; movie 2
Haddasah:One Night with the King
Hadassah: One Night With the King
Christi McEacharn

Hadassah: One Night With the King
Tommy Tenney , Mark Andrew Olsen , and Mark Olsen
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Bestselling author Tommy Tenney expands the extraordinary story of Esther like no novelist has done before. Both a thriller and a Jewish woman's memoir, Hadassah takes readers to ancient Persia (now known as Iran), into the inner sanctum of the palace and back out into the war zones of battle and political intrigue. This gripping drama of a simple peasant girl chosen over many more qualified candidates to become Esther, Queen of Persia, captures the imagination and fires the emotions of men and women alike.

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Awe-Inspiring.......2007-06-08

One night with the king is an awesome book, that puts you right there. Tommy Tenney is a great author. I have the movie, but still not as detailed as the book.

book 5 ; movie 2.......2007-05-07

This book was incredible. Detailed and romantic, and action packed, I stayed indoors and up through the night to finish this one. The best retelling of the story of Esther I have ever seen, hands down. As many of the other reviewers, the first thing I did after finishing was to read the book of Esther.
I'D WARN anyone, though, that some early parts of the story are kind of graphic/violent.
The only reason I gave it four stars is that I couldn't wait to see the movie, and when it finally came out, it was a BIG disappointment.
If you like the book, read it twice. Skip the movie...or watch it on TV to go to sleep.

Haddasah:One Night with the King.......2007-05-07

I absolutely loved this book based on the Book of Esther in the Old Testament. I could hardly put it down. The characters were so beautifully fleshed out and the descriptions of places and times were also wonderful.

Hadassah: One Night With the King.......2007-05-06

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I read the book after seeing the movie and was concerned that one would detract from the other. Not so. The book only served to enhance the experience of seeing the movie. Top notch

Christi McEacharn.......2007-04-02

Wow! This was a great book. I read it one day while on the road and my sister read it the next day - neither of us could put it down! I opted for the book instead of the movie after reading reviews on this site and I do not regret the decision.

Esther: The star and the sceptre : a novel

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Captivating
the BEST love story i ever read!!!
Esther, The Star and the Sceptre

Esther: The star and the sceptre : a novel
Gini Andrews
Manufacturer: Zondervan Pub. House
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Captivating.......2002-05-30

Having only read the biblical version of the story, I found this book to be insightful and true-to-life. It was so captivating that I could hardly wait to get home from work each day to keep reading it. It provides much depth and emotion to all characters and has been well researched. Fictional characters were craftfully inserted into the story to fill the gaps in the biblical version without taking away from it authenticity. I will be re-reading and re-re-reading this book in the future.

the BEST love story i ever read!!!.......2002-01-22

my daughter and i read this book when she was in high school i was so lost in the story it was like i was really there but best of all it was from an actual historical happening.

Esther, The Star and the Sceptre.......2001-04-24

One of the best Biblical fictions I've read. Even though I'm very familiar with the story from the Bible, this book held me enthralled to the very last page. It answered questions that I've had since I was a child...i.e. "Why was it such a big thing for Esther to go before the king without his calling for her?" and "How might Esther have felt about going to the King's bed without out benefit of marriage, given the strict upbringing of the Jewish girls?" Fascinating book, I will be searching out more books by this author.

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Excellent reading
Great book for any girls bookshelf
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Bestselling author Tommy Tenney expands the extraordinary story of Esther like no novelist has done before. Both a thriller and a Jewish woman's memoir, Hadassah takes readers to ancient Persia (now known as Iraq), into the inner sanctum of the palace and back out into the war zones of battle and political intrigue. This gripping drama of a simple peasant girl chosen over many more qualified candidates to become Esther, Queen of Persia, captures the imagination and fires the emotions of men and women alike.

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Excellent reading.......2006-11-07

This is excellent reading for young readers. It brings the story of Esther to life.

Great book for any girls bookshelf.......2006-05-19

My daughter enjoyed this book as much as I enjoyed the adult version. It really put the book of Esther to life for you. I would recommend it to anyone.

Excellent novel for young girls.......2005-07-16

This version of the adult Hadassah by Tommy Tenney is for girls 10-14, and is age appropriate for them, having the more graphic details of the adult version replaced with less unsettling wording. If you are looking for a book about the life of Queen Esther for the young girls in your life, this is one that would be an excellent choice. The pictures throughout the novel are quite nicely done and go along with the story. Well worth the 9.99 asking price.

Esther: The Peasant Girl Who Saved a Nation

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Great Book

Esther: The Peasant Girl Who Saved a Nation
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Great Book.......2003-03-12

For young readers this is a wonderful depiction of a historical saga put in language that is uncomplicated and exciting! I would recommend it for Sunday School classes and reader's clubs!

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

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An Outstanding Contribution to Ancient Greek History
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
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An Outstanding Contribution to Ancient Greek History.......2007-06-21

A little more than a year ago, I read the Iliad for the first time as an adult, for no other reason than my own entertainment. I was at once bitten by the ancient Greek bug and set out to obtain the classical education I somehow missed in high school and college. I pursued this by taking a few Teaching Company audio courses, reading primary sources of the ancients -- Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides -- as well as the best popular and scholarly books I could find to elucidate the various eras of ancient Greek civilization. One of the latter certainly is Tom Holland's Persian Fire.

I came to Persian Fire with a decent background in the overall theme, and I read Herodotus in tandem with it through much of the book, but Holland's treatment enhanced everything I had absorbed prior because he approached the subject with a regional theme. It would be difficult to comprehend the foreign policy of the United States in the latter half of the 20th century without a fairly comprehensive background in the history of the Soviet Union; yet most historians of early fifth century Greece provide scant attention to the foe that most defined their political culture, the Persians they referred to sometimes pejoratively as "the Mede." Holland's work is superior from the get-go because he takes the regional approach most period treatments gloss over.

For those who want to delve right in to the Greco-Persian conflict, patience is in order as Holland sets the stage with an extremely well written background history not only of chief Hellenic city-states Athens and Sparta, but most importantly the origins of Persian rule -- and all of that takes us -- sometimes breathlessly with the gusto of a great author in love with his subject -- to an account of Mediterranean geo-politics on the eve of the conflict. I got more of the sense of the ancient world at the time from Holland than any other single work I had read previously.

Unlike many contemporary historians of the ancient world like Kagan, Holland deliberately avoids trying to fit the themes and the conflicts of 2500 years ago into today's foreign policies, but -- remarkably so -- he does manage to interpret the actions of the key players into the sometimes Machiavellian power politics characteristic of states throughout recorded history. No other work I have encountered brings marble figures like Themistocles and Aristides to flesh-and-blood life, warts and all, the way Holland does in this book.

A great read, in every way. Lots of material and not a boring spot in the story. I'll probably re-read it again someday. If you have any interest at all in the ancient Greek world, don't miss this one!

"History" or Age-Old Bias?.......2007-06-13

The book is thoroughly (I dare say) enteirtaining, in an old folks-tale kind of way, but I genuinely regert that it lacks scholarly value: It is a mere narration, not discussion or analysis.

It is disapointing that the likes of Mrs. Cross (see below review) are touched emotionally (it eclipses TRUE scholarly endeavors). What Mr. Holland or Mrs. Cross fail to mention is how the 300 Spartans held their slaves against their will to fight alongside them against Persia. I wonder if that is "valour", or "glory".

Perhaps if the tolerant Persia had fused with democratic-like Athens, the world would have been spared of the Athenian Empire, or even the merciless Rome.

A prelude to Alexander.......2007-02-01

A concise history of the Greco-Persian wars. Holland does a good job of intertwining the histories of Persia, Athens, and Sparta into a coherent narrative. While Greek history is a well-trodden path, I knew very little about the rise of the Persian Empire and was pleased to see Holland spend so much time on the subject. The other major strength of the book is the author's prose; he writes very well, making the work enjoyable as well as informative. Artfully done.

Good scholarship wrapped in a racy narrative.......2006-12-11

This very readable popular history of the 5th-century BC Persian Wars with Greece combines careful historical detective work with a sometimes breezy tone.

I enjoyed this book probably about as much as I enjoyed Holland's "Rubicon"--which is to say, quite a lot. It is solid, credibly researched history as it might be presented by a tabloid journalist: cynical, gossipy, and salted liberally with salacious or incriminating nuggets about its many characters. It is intended for a general audience, not an academic one, and it succeeds very well.

The book has an unusual but well-considered structure. Holland starts off by describing the societies of the protagonists, devoting his opening chapters to Mesopotamia, Iran, Sparta, and Athens. He does an excellent job of showing how different these worlds were from each other, and gives a strong flavor of how their inhabitants thought and behaved. That done, Holland moves on to the wars themselves, with accounts of the campaigns leading to the famous battles of Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis, which we are now in a position to appreciate much better, knowing something of the outlook and worldview of the different players.

Holland's drive to tell a seamless story has him solving all kinds of problems of conflicts in the sources, drawing canny conclusions from wispy or contradictory data. Only occasionally does he draw attention to his reasoning; mostly it is part of the work underlying the flow of his story. And his story does flow.

Sometimes I found that Holland had laid the cynicism on a bit thick. While of course the ancient world, including among its heroes, had its share of scheming, selfish, greedy, backstabbing blowhards, some of the people must have exhibited more noble qualities at least sometimes. You wouldn't know it from reading Holland.

But I get a sense that all this is done with a twinkle in Holland's eye. As though taking such liberties were part of the fun available to the ancient historian, whose subjects (and their families) are many centuries past being able to take legal action. Holland's mission appears to be to make ancient history relevant, interesting, and most of all fun to a wide contemporary audience, and any peccadilloes of scholarly balance are a small price to pay for this bigger prize.

Holland makes the ancient world a very human, indeed an all too human, place. The portentous theme of East vs. West he handles with a light touch. In many other ways too he shows respect for the intelligence of the reader, who, while being fed heaping portions of gossip about our ancestors, is perhaps learning more than he or she realizes.

If you're interested in the history of ancient Greece, but are new to the subject, you could do a lot worse than reading this book.

Singeing the King's Beard.......2006-10-09

OK, Tom Holland gets my vote for fun and read-able history. Although he is not good enough for some of the other reviewers, he is a godsend for the regular guy. For example, he can take an historical event like the Battle of Salamis and rachet up the tension and drama to the point where you feel like you are reading about it in this morning's newspaper. That said, you need to know your Punic from your Peloponnesian War, your Samos from your Lesbos, and your Darius from you Xerxes in order to fully enjoy this account, In that sense Tom Holland's PERSIAN FIRE is probably too middlebrow for the scholar and too complicated for the novice. But boy O boy he he fun for the rest of us.
In a world where the East rubs up against the West he can fill in the historical blanks that still bedevil us to this day. And today it still seems to me that we are living in the same battle of the past (East) versus the future (West). PERSIAN FIRE sets todays headlines, in some respects, against a 2500 year old backdrop. As we might watch the CBS news, the Athenians, in the shadow of their burned and gutted Acropolis, would watch the young buck playwright, Aeschylus, stage THE PERSIANS one year after the exhausted Greeks had won the war and returned to the abandoned Athens.
Spartans, that weird and long-haired race of warriors, get their fair share of exposure but lose some of their mystique in Holland's re-telling of Thermopylae and the Spartan king's last stand.

The bottom line is that I like my history books to try and be as exciting as the actual events they describe. Tom Holland fits the bill perfectly. This stands with RUBICON, his earlier effort, as one of my favorite history books. For the scholarly historians, well, I just want to reassure them that this book will push me toward a deeper exploration of ancient Greece, not drive me away. And for that, a tip of the helmet is due to Tom Holland

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The worst play to study
A unique Greek tragedy by Aeschylus about a historical event
The tragedy of a proud people.
The first play based on recent history.

The Persians
Aeschylus , and Robert Potter
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The mighty Xerxes from Darius sprung, The stream of whose rich blood flows in our veins, Leads against Greece; whether his arrowy shower Shot from the strong-braced bow, or the huge spear High brandish'd, in the deathful field prevails.

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The worst play to study.......2003-10-09

After volunteering to look at this play for my Classics degree, I started out with high hopes. But after opening it and dicovering how boring it was, my hopes faltered. I still gave it a go though and a couple of hours later when I finally got ready to start writing whether it was actually good enough as a play, my problems started. Bearing in mind that it was written 2500 years ago, i was intrigued that a play could last for so long. But honestly, thats where my interest stopped. It's lenghthy and dull, and although I know that it is a very historical and precise play, I just couldn't follow it. If you want bedtime reading that will send you to sleep, this is the one, sorry.

A unique Greek tragedy by Aeschylus about a historical event.......2003-04-04

"The Persians" is a minor work in the extant plays of Aeschylus, but has considerable historical if not dramatic significance. The play is the second and only remaining tragedy from a lost tetralogy that is based on the historical events of the Persians Wars. The play was performed in 472 B.C., eight years after the defeat of the invaders at the Battle of Salamis. The speech by the Messenger is assumed to be a fairly accurate description of the battle, but the focus of the play is on the downfall of the Persian Empire because of the folly of Xerxes. After the ghost of Darius, father of Xerxes and the leader of the first Persian invasion that was defeated at the Battle of Marathon laments the ruin of the great empire he had ruled, Xerxes offers similar histrionics concerning the destruction of his fleet.

The play is interesting because Aeschylus presents Xerxes, a foreign invader, as exhibiting the same sort of hubris that afflicts the greatest of mythological heroes in these Greek tragedies. Laud and honor is given the Athenians for defeating the Persians in battle, but Aeschylus surprisingly provides a look at the Persian king's culpability in the downfall of his empire. There is a reference in the play to the tradition that Xerxes was descended from Perseus (for whom the Persian race was therefore named), but even so it seems quite odd to turn him into a traditional Greek tragic hero. Aeschylus had fought the Persians at the Battles of Marathon and Salamis, which certainly lends authenticity to his description of events.

Aeschylus won the festival of Dionysus in 472 B.C. with the tetralogy of "Phineus," "The Persians," "Glaucus of Potniae," and the satyr play "Prometheus the Fire-Kindler." Phineas was the king who became the victim of the Harpies, while this particular Glaucus was the son of Sisyphus and the father of Bellerophon who was torn to pieces by his own mares. Consequently, this particular tetralogy clearly has the theme of kings brought down by their own folly. But even within that context, the fact that Aeschylus would write of a historical rather than legendary figure, not to mention a Persian rather than a Greek, remains more than a minor historical curiosity.

The tragedy of a proud people........2000-03-27

"Persians" deals with a people trying to exceed mortal limits. The king of persia blinds his people into believing they can accomplish deeds that exceed the laws of the divine and it's natural order. The king invades Greece despite bad omens. The people in Persia are told they are defeated by a messenger and mourn in mad disbelief. Searching for answers they summon the spirit of a once great king who cannot undo what has now been done. Persia's once proud army, security, and young sons are perished. This translation is excellent. The ending of the play through subject matter is sad enough, but the helpless lines delivered by King Xerxes and the chorus through dialogue toward each other at the end of the play is devastating.

The first play based on recent history........1999-06-13

This is generally not considered one of the better plays of Aeschylus; yet, I did enjoy it, even though there is very little action. Perhaps it is because it dealt with a subject of contemporary interest to its original audience. In fact, it is the oldest surviving play based on an event of recent history. The play was first produced in 472 B. C., only eight years after the Battle of Salamis. The speech by the Messenger in the play is the earliest known historical account of that battle. The play takes place in the Persian court and simply presents the arrival of a messenger carrying the news of Persia's defeat and is followed by the entry of a disgraced Xerxes. This play also contains the earliest known appearance by a ghost in a drama.

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I have never read a book like this one
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Esther: A Novel
Gini Andrews
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I have never read a book like this one.......2004-07-12

Esther: The STAR and the SCEPTRE was an intriguing book about a young Jewish girl who was favored by the king over all his concubine, but the question is Why was it such a big deal for Esther to go before the king without him calling her first? Then, I wonder how Esther felt about going to the king's bed without benefits of marriage consedering her strict upbringing as a Jewish girl.

Enjoyment.......2001-04-23

Ii've enjoyed this book ever since I read it in third grade. One of the best things is that, no matter how many times I read it, I still find a new insight or learn new history. It's well-written and fast-paced. If you can ever get ahold of a copy, it's well worth the time and the money.

Ishtar of Persia: A Novel of King Xerxes' Times

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Ishtar of Persia: A Novel of King Xerxes' Times
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Cyrus the Archer (Phonics Museum, 26)
Wes Callihan , and Dani Callihan
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Colorfully illustrated children's book about the Persian empire.

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