The surprise defeat of the mighty Persian Empire in 490 B.C. began the Golden Age of Athens and the Greco-Persian wars. A well-armed Greek hoplite (right) slays a Persian soldier in a detail from a ...

Humans have had almost ceaseless difficulties in working and living together. Superstition, religious ideas, race, geography, ownership of land, and language engulf them so much, they often fail to ...

The story of the Graeco-Persian wars has been often told, by ancients and moderns alike. But early in this book Shepherd, a classicist with several works on Ancient Greek history under his belt, ...

Researchers using wartime aerial photos and Cold War satellite imagery have identified a vast, once-lost Persian garden complex in Iran.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xxx, 204. Illus, maps, chron., notes, biblio., index. $24.95. ISBN: 0199747326 As the primary source of the Graeco ...