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The Assassins' Gate is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the terrible predicament in which we now find ourselves

The Battle of Marathon book-new-arrivals-2025-03-03 The rackets he runs areHow did the city state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Clever scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produced one ingenious theory after another. In this stimulating new book, bound to provoke controversy, Peter Krentz argues that Herodotus was right after all. Beginning his analysis with the Athenians first formal contact with the Persians in 507