Marathon: The Crucial Battle That Created Western Democracy
Marathon: The Crucial Battle That Created Western Democracy
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Details
- Year of publication
- 2004
- ISBN
- 028563688X
- Place of printing
- London
- Author
- Lloyd, Alan
- Publishers
- Souvenir Press
- Size
- 8.5 x 5.25 inches
- Keyword
- History, Ancient Greece, Athens, Sparta, Persians, Darius
- Binding description
- Soft Cover
- Dust jacket
- False
- State of preservation
- Fine
- Languages
- English
- Binding
- Softcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- False
Description
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 210pp. The story of civilizations on collision course in 490 BC when Darius the Persian king attempted the invasion of Greece and the Battle of Marathon was the culmination of this. The Greeks were defending their radical new political form - democracy.