Description
Tom Holland’s sweeping history recounts the rise of the Persian Empire and its dramatic invasion of Greece in the fifth century B.C.E. From the empire’s rapid expansion across the ancient Near East to the defiant Greek resistance at Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea, the narrative explores a conflict whose consequences reached far beyond the battlefield. Blending rigorous scholarship with vivid, novelistic storytelling, the book examines power, freedom, cultural identity, and the fragile foundations of what would later be called the West. It offers an illuminating portrait of two civilizations confronting one another at a pivotal moment in world history.
Available Editions
ebook
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Jan 1, 2007
466 pages
ISBN: 9780307386984
paperback
Doubleday
Published Jan 1, 2006
472 pages
ISBN: 9780385513111
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First Published
2005
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland.