Pausanias of Sparta: From Victor to Traitor by Daniel Ogden Hardcover Book

by Daniel Ogden Hardcover

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The Nile on eBay Pausanias of Sparta by Daniel Ogden The story of Pausanias, the general who defeated the Persians invading Greece and changed the course of historyWeaving together ancient sources, Daniel Ogden tells the gripping story of the enigmatic and controversial Spartan regent to an underage king. Pausanias (ca. 505–ca. 467 BCE) would never have come to power had the Persians not annihilated the Greek forces at Thermopylae in 480 BCE, killing his uncle Leonidas. The next year, Greek forces under the new regent's command crushed the Persians at the decisive Battle of Plataea. It was a brilliant victory for Pausanias, but his heroic reputation swiftly declined. He was accused of tyrannical ambition, treachery, rape, and murder and came to a grisly and ghostly end, starved to death in Sparta's Temple of this meticulously researched book—the first full-length biography of Pausanias in English—Ogden searches for the truth behind the ancient stories. Was Pausanias merely misunderstood and misrepresented, or was he an egotist in thrall to his own success? Despite Pausanias's dark demise, Ogden hails his greatest achievement: by defeating the Persians he ensured the future of Classical Greek culture and the development of Western civilization as we know it. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Review "There are battles, and then there are decisive battles in world history: prominent among the latter was Plataea in 479 BCE, which found Spartan Regent Pausanias pitted against a

• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780300284768
• Condition: Fine

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