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Antonios athenaeus

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Epic Battles of Ancient History

At Aegospotami, one surprise ended a generation of war.In 405 B.C., after nearly three decades of struggle, Athens still possessed the fleet that had sustained its empire and prolonged the Peloponnesian War. Sparta, under the command of Lysander, needed one decisive victory to break Athenian power forever. On the shores of the Hellespont, discipline, patience, and timing would decide the fate of Greece.This book examines the Battle of Aegospotami not simply...

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Athenaeus

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C. D. Yonge

Athenaeus (Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD. The Suda says only that he lived in the times of Marcus Aurelius.Several of his publications are lost, but the fifteen-volume Deipnosophistae mostly survives.The Deipnosophistae is an early 3rd-century AD Greek work by the Greek author Athenaeus of Naucratis. It is a long work of literary, historical, and antiquarian references set in Rome a...

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Antonios athenaeus

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Epic Battles of Rome

One of the greatest military victories in history. One of Rome's most devastating defeats. And a triumph that still could not win the war.In 216 B.C., on the plains of southern Italy, Hannibal Barca confronted the largest Roman army yet assembled against him. Rome had concentrated its military strength to destroy the Carthaginian invader and bring an end to years of humiliating defeats.Instead, the Battle of Cannae became one of the most extraordinary examp...

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Antonios athenaeus

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Epic Battles of Ancient History

At Thermopylae, time—not terrain—was the decisive weapon.In 480 B.C., the Persian Empire advanced into Greece with overwhelming force. Xerxes commanded an army drawn from across Asia, supported by a massive fleet and sustained by imperial logistics. Northern Greece had already collapsed. The road to the heart of the Greek world lay open.Only one position stood in its path.A narrow pass.This book presents the Battle of Thermopylae not as a st...

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Antonios athenaeus

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Epic Battles of Ancient History

At Marathon in 490 B.C., the survival of Greece was decided in a single charge.The Persian Empire had already destroyed the city of Eretria and landed a powerful expeditionary force on the plain of Marathon. Athens faced the prospect of invasion, political collapse, and the return of tyranny under Persian authority. Against the might of the empire stood a single citizen army supported by a small contingent from Plataea.This book examines the Battle of Marat...

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Athenaeus

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Delphi Ancient Classics

A rhetorician of the late second century, Athenaeus wrote ‘The Deipnosophistae’ (‘Dinner-Table Philosophers’), a fifteen-book encyclopaedia of information on the ancient world, preserving otherwise lost treasures from many important writers. The text is structured as a dialogue in the vein of Plato, offering an amusing account of a Greek symposium. ‘The Deipnosophistae’ details the many different cuisines and entertainments of ancient banquets, held together by the intellectual tal...

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Antonios athenaeus

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Epic Battles of Eastern Roman Empire

At Nineveh, the fate of the Sasanian Empire—and the survival of the Eastern Roman Empire—was decided.In 627 A.D., Emperor Heraclius led one of the most daring campaigns of Late Antiquity deep into the heart of the Sasanian Empire. Refusing to remain on the defensive after years of devastating Persian invasions, he carried the war across Armenia into northern Mesopotamia, forcing the Persians to confront him under conditions of his own choosing. Near the ruins of an...

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Antonios athenaeus

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Epic Battles of Ancient History

The Siege of Syracuse was the campaign that destroyed one of the greatest military expeditions ever launched by Athens.In 415 B.C., at the height of the Peloponnesian War, Athens dispatched an immense armada to Sicily. What began as an ambitious attempt to expand Athenian power soon became a two-year struggle for Syracuse, the most powerful Greek city in Sicily. By 413 B.C., the expedition had ended in catastrophe: the fleet was destroyed, the army forced into a de...

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Antonios athenaeus

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Epic Battles of Ancient History

The Battle of Coronea marked the moment Sparta preserved its supremacy against the greatest challenge of the Corinthian War.In 394 B.C., only weeks after the Battle of Nemea, King Agesilaus II returned from his victorious campaign in Asia Minor to confront the growing anti-Spartan coalition in Boeotia. Determined to prevent his enemies from uniting their full strength, he marched south through Central Greece and forced one of the fiercest hoplite battles of the Cla...

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Antonios athenaeus

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Epic Battles of Eastern Roman Empire

At Constantinople, the future of the Byzantine Empire—and perhaps of Europe itself—was decided.In 717 A.D., the Umayyad Caliphate launched the greatest expedition in its history to capture Constantinople. After decades of relentless expansion, the Arabs stood before the strongest fortress of the medieval world, determined to destroy the Byzantine Empire and open southeastern Europe to further conquest. Opposing them stood Emperor Leo III, whose leadership, preparat...

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Antonios athenaeus

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Epic Battles of Eastern Roman Empire

At Dara, the Eastern Roman Empire proved that discipline, preparation, and operational control could halt the offensive power of Sassanian Persia.In 530 A.D., near the fortified frontier city of Dara, the Byzantine general Belisarius confronted a larger Persian army determined to break Roman resistance in Mesopotamia. Using fortified positions, coordinated cavalry maneuver, concealed reserves, and disciplined battlefield control, the Byzantines absorbed repeated Pe...

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Antonios athenaeus

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Epic Battles of Ancient History

At Chaeronea, the Greek world crossed a point of no return.In 338 B.C., on the plains of Boeotia, the armies of Athens, Thebes, and their allies confronted the rising power of Macedon. The Battle of Chaeronea was not simply a clash between opposing forces, but a confrontation between two fundamentally different ways of making war. It was shaped by preparation, command structure, and the ability to control events as the battlefield fractured, rather than by chance, ...