The Greek Wars treats of the whole course of Persian relations with the Greeks from the coming of Cyrus in the 540s down to Alexander the Great's defeat of Dari

Hackett's Passages: Key Moments in History series titles include original-source documents in accessible editions, intended for the student-user or general audi

This book covers one of the defining periods of European history. The series of wars between the Classical Greeks and the Persian Empire produced the famous bat

A "fresh...thrilling" (The Guardian) account of the Graeco-Persian Wars. In the fifth century B.C., a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order

Herodotus, the great Greek historian, wrote this famous history of warfare between the Greeks and the Persians in a delightful style. Herodotus portrays the dis