Family Tree of the Achaemenid Royal Family
PROLOGUE - SETTING THE AWFUL SCENE
ONE - THE ANCIENT WORLD IN 500 BCE: FROM INDIA TO THE AEGEAN
TWO - THE DYNAMICS OF EMPIRE: PERSIA OF THE ACHAEMENIDS, 485
THREE - HELLAS: THE HELLENIC WORLD IN 485
FOUR - SPARTA 485: A UNIQUE CULTURE AND SOCIETY
FIVE - THERMOPYLAE I: MOBILIZATION
SIX - THERMOPYLAE II: PREPARATIONS FOR BATTLE
SEVEN - THERMOPYLAE III: THE BATTLE
EIGHT - THE THERMOPYLAE LEGEND I: ANTIQUITY
NINE - THE THERMOPYLAE LEGEND II: FROM ANTIQUITY TO MODERNITY
EPILOGUE - THERMOPYLAE: TURNING-POINT IN WORLD HISTORY
Appendix 1. The Invention of History: Herodotus and Other Ancient Sources
Appendix 2. Herodotus’s Persian Muster-Lists: A Translation
Appendix 3. Herodotus – Antidote to Fundamentalism