Thermopylae and Salamis: The Persian Invasion of 480 BC: 2500 years on [Access is free until 31 October, 2021]

Thermopylae and Salamis: The Persian Invasion of 480 BC: 2500 years on

[Access is free until 31 October, 2021]

"2500 years ago this year a massive Persian force descended into Greece. How massive we cannot say. Ancient figures for Persian numbers are wildly exaggerated from the very start. Just a few years after the war an inscription at Thermopylae, site of the first engagement between Greek forces and the invaders, gave a figure of 3 million for the land army. Modern figures by different means generally reduce that figure to about 200,000. Even that may be far too high. But on any calculation this was the biggest force ever seen on the Greek peninsula at that date... It is this pivotal moment which forms the focus of the essays and chapters contained in this selection of works from the classical journals. It designedly contains work published at different periods over the last century. It makes no attempt at comprehensive cover, if that were possible. But it does contain some superb scholarship, and hopefully food for thought."

Read the foreword by Chris Carey (UCL) in full.

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• Article

• Simonides, Ephorus, and Herodotus on the battle of Thermopylae

• Michael A. Flower
• The Classical Quarterly, Volume 48, Issue 2

• Article

• SPARSE SPARTAN VERSE: FILLING GAPS IN THE THERMOPYLAE EPIGRAM

• Ioannis Ziogas
• Ramus, Volume 43, Issue 2

• Article

• Herodotus and the Dating of the Battle of Thermopylae*

• Kenneth S. Sacks
• The Classical Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 2

• Article

• Arms, Tactics and Strategy in the Persian War

• W. W. How
• The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Volume 43, Issue 2

• Article

• IMMORTALS AND APPLE BEARERS: TOWARDS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF ACHAEMENID INFANTRY UNITS

• MICHAEL B. CHARLES
• The Classical Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 1

• Article

• THE ECLIPSE OF XERXES IN HERODOTUS 7.37: LUX A NON OBSCURANDO*

• Eric Glover
• The Classical Quarterly, Volume 64, Issue 2

• Article

• The Serpent Column in Ottoman Sources

• V. L. Ménage
• Anatolian Studies, Volume 14

• Article

• ‘CHRIST, OUR LEONIDAS’: DRACONTIUS’ RECEPTION OF THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE

• Jeffrey Murray
• Greece & Rome, Volume 63, Issue 1

• Article

• To Make a New Thermopylae: Hellenism, Greek Liberation, and the Battle of Thermopylae*

• Ian Macgregor Morris
• Greece & Rome, Volume 47, Issue 2

• Article

• On the Possibility of Reconstructing Marathon and Other Ancient Battles

• N. Whatley
• The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Volume 84

• Article

• The construction of Xerxes' bridge over the Hellespont*

• N.G.L. Hammond, L.J. Roseman
• The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Volume 116

• Article

• The Thessalian expedition of 480 B.C.

• N. Robertson
• The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Volume 96

• Article

• The place that beached a thousand ships

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• The Classical Quarterly, Volume 48, Issue 2

• Article

• The narrative of Herodotus vii and the decree of Themistocles at Troezen

• N. G. L. Hammond
• The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Volume 102

• Article

• Thetis in the ‘Ovens’: A Reconsideration of Herodotus’ Topography of Magnesia

• J.Z. Van Rookhuijzen
• The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Volume 137

• Article

• VOICELESS VICTIMS, MEMORABLE DEATHS IN HERODOTUS

• OVE STRID
• The Classical Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 2

• Article

• The Greek ships at Salamis and the Diekplous

• J. S. Morrison
• The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Volume 111

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• The Battle of Salamis

• N. G. L. Hammond
• The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Volume 76

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