The delayed Persian arrival on Euboea reported by Herodotus was deliberate and calculated to preclude immediate Spartan reinforcement of the Athenian position. However, this tactical success culminated in strategic disaster when Persian intelligence proved less well informed about the depth of Athenian patriotism than it had been about Spartan religious scruples.Le retard perse en Eubée rapporté par Hérodote était délibéré et calculé pour prévenir un renforcement immédiat spartiate de la position athénienne. Cependant, ce succès tactique se termina en un désastre stratégique lorsque les services de renseignements perses se révélèrent moins bien informés sur la profondeur du patriotisme athénien qu’ils ne l’avaient été à propos des scrupules...
Some two and a half millennia ago, in the summer of 490 BC, a small army of 9,000 Athenians, support...
This chapter (in Greek) is included in Lessons of War III: Athenian Dramas, National Theatre Publica...
International audienceIt may seem somewhat odd to study the way by which the defeat of Aigos-Potamoi...
The delayed Persian arrival on Euboea reported by Herodotus was deliberate and calculated to preclud...
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Some two and a half millennia ago, in the summer of 490 BC, a small army of 9,000 Athenians, support...
The evidence presented in this essay leads to the conclusion that the Greek charge at Marathon was n...
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In the scope of historical events recorded by Herodotus, no event has been more pivotal in capturing...
Some two and a half millennia ago, in the summer of 490 BC, a small army of 9,000 Athenians, support...
This chapter (in Greek) is included in Lessons of War III: Athenian Dramas, National Theatre Publica...
International audienceIt may seem somewhat odd to study the way by which the defeat of Aigos-Potamoi...
The delayed Persian arrival on Euboea reported by Herodotus was deliberate and calculated to preclud...
Entre 465 et 404, les Spartiates ont agi envers les Athéniens avec un opportunisme politique d'une r...
International audienceWe may evoke the strange defeat of the stronger party only if we suppose that ...
The words of defeat are divided between Trojans and Achaeans depending on the hazards of war. That i...
Some two and a half millennia ago, in the summer of 490 BC, a small army of 9,000 Athenians, support...
The evidence presented in this essay leads to the conclusion that the Greek charge at Marathon was n...
International audienceThe defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War was a central focus of contempor...
In the scope of historical events recorded by Herodotus no event has been more pivotal in capturing ...
Taking into account the political opinion of his audience, Herodotus did not greatly criticize Spart...
Les relations gréco-persanes à partir de la sujétion des Grecs ioniens jusqu’à la fin de l’empire pe...
It is argued against N. G. L. Hammond that the polemarch was the supreme commander of the Athenian f...
In the scope of historical events recorded by Herodotus, no event has been more pivotal in capturing...
Some two and a half millennia ago, in the summer of 490 BC, a small army of 9,000 Athenians, support...
This chapter (in Greek) is included in Lessons of War III: Athenian Dramas, National Theatre Publica...
International audienceIt may seem somewhat odd to study the way by which the defeat of Aigos-Potamoi...