<p><b>Praise for the author''s <i>A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths</i>: ''Eminently sane, highly informative''</b><br>PAUL CARTLEDGE, <i>BBC History</i> magazine<br><br>In 2022 it will be 2,500 years since the final defeat of the invasion of Greece by the Persian King Xerxes. This astonishing clash between East and West still has resonances in modern history, and has left us with tales of heroic resistance in the face of seemingly hopeless odds. Kershaw makes use of recent archaeological and geological discoveries in this thrilling and timely retelling of the story, originally told by Herodotus, the Father of History.<br><br>The protagonists are, in Europe, the Greeks, led on land by militaristic, oligarchic Sparta, and on sea by the newly democratic Athens; in Asia, the mighty Persian Empire - powerful, rich, cultured, ethnically diverse, ruled by mighty kings, and encompassing modern Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Egypt.<br><br>When the rich, sophisticated, Greek communities of Ionia
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