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Richard Evans revisits the sites of a selection of Greek and Roman battles and sieges to seek new insights. The battle n

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Table of contents :
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Maps
Plates
Introduction
Chapter 1. New Perspectives on the War in Ionia (499–493 BC)
Chapter 2. From Marathon to Thermopylae – Expurgating Persian War Myths (490–480 BC)
Chapter 3. Caesar's Campaigns to Ilerda in 49 BC
Chapter 4. Tacitus on the Battles of Bedriacum and the Deaths of Two Emperors
Notes
Bibliography

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