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Lädt ... The Battle of Marathon (Yale Library of Military History)von Peter Krentz
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. If you are looking for a straight forward accounting of the Battle of Marathon, this is not the book for you. At times reading more like a thesis, the author (a university professor himself) analyses in detail the whys, wheres and whatfores of the reasons for, capabilities of the combatants, location and events of the battle. It is an exhaustive (and at times exhausting) study of the battle, that can at times be difficult to follow through all the byways of academe. However, by the end of the book I knew all and more than I could ever want to of the Battle of Marathon. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Clever scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produced one ingenious theory after another. In this stimulating new book, bound to provoke controversy, Peter Krentz argues that Herodotus was right after all. Beginning his analysis with the Athenians' first formal contact with the Persians in 507 BCE, Krentz weaves together ancient evidence with travelers' descriptions, archaeological discoveries, geological surveys, and the experiences of modern reenactors and soldiers to tell his story.Krentz argues that before Marathon the Athenian army fought in a much less organized way than the standard view of the hoplite phalanx suggests: as an irregularly armed mob rather than a disciplined formation of identically equipped infantry. At Marathon the Athenians equipped all their fighters, including archers and horsemen, as hoplites for the first time. Because their equipment weighed only half as much as is usually thought, the Athenians and their Plataean allies could charge almost a mile at a run, as Herodotus says they did. Krentz improves on this account in Herodotus by showing why the Athenians wanted to do such a risky thing. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)938.03History and Geography Ancient World Greece to 323 Greece to 323 Persian Wars; Union of Greece (500-479 BC)Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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