Thermopylae
The Battle That Changed the World

I cant get enough of Greek and Roman history. I was therefore looking forward to this narration. Unfortunately, although the reading is as far as I can tell historically accurate, the narration itself is punctilious, almost haughty. When a narrator draws more attention to his prissy pronunciation than to the content of his reading, I am, as they say, outta here.

Great insight into the battle of 480BC where the losers won and the winners really lost. I wonder whether anyone has ever worked out what would have happened without the intervention of the traitor Ephialtes or if some Spartan hoplites had been guarding the Path of Anopaea? How many Persians would t......more

-Sobre las culturas y políticas implicadas, aunque también sobre la batalla.- Género. Ensayo. Lo que nos cuenta. El libro Termópilas (publicación original: Thermopylae. The Battle That Changed the World, 2006), con el subtítulo La batalla que cambió el mundo, es una aproximación a Lacedemonia (Esparta......more

This is an interesting book to read--and a pretty quick read, too. It is the story of Thermopylae, where King Leonidas and the Spartan 300 stood against Xerxes' mighty host at a narrow pass. Ultimately, they were betrayed by another Greek, and Xerxes sent troops by a narrow pathway to outflank the S......more

Cartledge, professor of Greek history at the University of Cambridge, examines the famous battle of 480 B.C. Most of us know about the Battle of Thermopylae, where a small Greek army held off a much larger Persian army at a pass in the mountains. The result was defeat for the Greeks with 300 Spartan......more