The great Persian War and its preliminaries

Name: The great Persian War and its preliminaries
Author: G. B. Grundy

by G. B. Grundy

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THE GREAT PERSIAN WAR AND ITS PRELIMINARIES
PREFACE.
NOTE.
CONTENTS.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
MAPS.
CHAPTER I. GREEK AND PERSIAN.
CHAPTER II. PERSIAN AND GREEK IN ASIA. THE SCYTHIAN EXPEDITION.
The Ethnic Frontier.
CHAPTER III. THE IONIAN REVOLT.
CHAPTER IV. PERSIAN OPERATIONS IN EUROPE: B.C. 493–490. MARATHON.
CHAPTER V. THE ENTR’ACTE: B.C. 490–480.
CHAPTER VI. THE MARCH OF THE PERSIAN ARMY. PREPARATIONS IN GREECE.
CHAPTER VII. THERMOPYLÆ.
CHAPTER VIII. ARTEMISIUM.
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX. SALAMIS.
CHAPTER X. FROM SALAMIS TO PLATÆA.
CHAPTER XI. THE CAMPAIGN OF PLATÆA.
Appendix Note 1.—The Account of the Battle given by Diodorus.
Appendix Note 2.—The Account of the Battle given in Plutarch’s “Aristides.”
Appendix Note 3.—Note on Platæa.
CHAPTER XII. MYKALE AND SESTOS.
CHAPTER XIII. THE WAR AS A WHOLE.
CHAPTER XIV. HERODOTUS AS THE HISTORIAN OF THE GREAT WAR.
INDEX.
Footnotes.
Corrections
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