Thebes
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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.
Výber kníh autorov
Pan Macmillan ,
Paul Cartledge
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Pan Macmillan,
Paul Cartledge
Výber kníh vydavateľa
Slovart
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Slovart
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