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3) Anabasis
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Loeb classical library volume 90
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English
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32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm.
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English
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Experience life as an ancient Persian foot soldier! Discover how the ancient Persians built the worlds first empire. Learn about their fighting methods and excellent archery skills. Find out how the Persian invention of the scythed war chariot forever changed how land battles were fought.
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8 audio discs (9 hr., 20 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Mitra, of royal Persian lineage, and her five-year-old brother Babak, whose dreams foretell the future, flee for their lives in the company of the magus Melchoir and two other Zoroastrian priests, traveling through Persia as they follow star signs leading to a newly-born king in Bethlehem.
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lxix, 585 pages : illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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"This new translation of the ancient classic, which is one of the greatest true-life adventure stories ever recorded, a fascinating tale of fraught and dangerous journey. The narrative tells of ten thousand Greek soldiers stranded deep in hostile Persia, their commander dead. Xenophon was appointed as one of their leaders, and he chronicled the harrowing journey as he led the marching republic north to the Black Sea. Supplements the text with detailed...
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xxiii, 418 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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In 480 B.C.E., Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory--rapid, spectacular victory--had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. They had swept across the Near East, shattering ancient kingdoms, storming famous cities, putting together an empire which stretched from India to the shores of the Aegean. Xerxes ruled as the most powerful man on the planet....
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140 pages ; 19 cm
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English
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"These two long essays make up a short book, one full of depth and knowledge, in which Eva Brann gets at the roots of our thinking -- without tearing things apart. Then: In the first, Brann parses out the schema and meaning of Herodotus's The History (The Persian Wars). She writes that Herodotus worked by indirection. Giving a full account of the Persians and the peoples who constituted their empire -- and whose empire encircled the Greeks (thus the...
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xiv, 431 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, genealogical table ; 25 cm
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English
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"The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. From the palace-city of Persepolis, Cyrus the Great, Darius, Xerxes, and their heirs reigned supreme for centuries until the conquests of Alexander of Macedon brought the empire to a swift and unexpected end in the late 330s BCE. In Persians, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the epic story of this...
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xvii, 570 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 32 cm.
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English
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Ferdowsi's classic poem Shahnameh is part myth, part history -- beginning with the legend of the birth of the Persian nation and its tumultuous history, it contains magical birds and superhuman heroes and centuries-long battles. Written over 1,000 years ago, it was meant to protect Persian collective memory amidst a turbulent sea of cultural storms. Originally written in couplets, the translation and adaptation by Ahmad Sadri retells the mythological...
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