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Thebes
- The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece
Engelsk
Bogcover for Thebes af Paul Cartledge, 9781509873180
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
352
ISBN-13:
9781509873180
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
150987318X
Udg. Dato:
27 maj 2021
Størrelse i cm:
12,9 x 19,8 x 2,7
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
27 maj 2021
Forfatter(e):

Thebes

- The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece
Engelsk
Paperback 2021
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‘An incisive, inspiring and vitally illuminating account of a city which changed the ancient world and which deserves to be remembered by the modern. A masterful book written by a master historian.’Bettany Hughes, bestselling author of Istanbul and Helen of Troy

Continuously inhabited for five millennia, and at one point the most powerful city in Ancient Greece, Thebes has been overshadowed by its better-known rivals, Athens and Sparta.

According to myth, the city was founded when Kadmos sowed dragon’s teeth into the ground and warriors sprang forth, ready not only to build the fledgling city but to defend it from all-comers. It was Hercules’ birthplace and the home of the Sphinx, whose riddle Oedipus solved, winning the Theban crown and the king’s widow in marriage, little knowing that the widow was his mother, Jocasta.

The city’s history is every bit as rich as its mythic origins, from siding with the Persian invaders when their emperor, Xerxes, set out to conquer Aegean Greece, to siding with Sparta – like Thebes an oligarchy – to defeat Pericles’ democratic Athens, to being utterly destroyed on the orders of Alexander the Great.

In Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece, the acclaimed classical historian Paul Cartledge brings the city vividly to life, and argues that it is central to our understanding of the ancient Greeks’ achievements – whether politically or culturally – and thus to our own culture and civilization.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
352
ISBN-13:
9781509873180
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
150987318X
Udg. Dato:
27 maj 2021
Størrelse i cm:
12,9 x 19,8 x 2,7
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
27 maj 2021
Forfatter(e):
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