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Travelling to New Zealand, while expensive, is not too difficult: analysing the composition of the H2O molecule would however be beyond the easy capacity of most people, and travelling back in time to prove the facts about the Persian Wars impossible.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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During the Persian Wars, the guide said, Athenians asked the Oracle how to protect themselves from being attacked by the enemy.
Michael Winship: Don't Believe Everything the Oracle Tells You 2009
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Thus for Thucydides, Herodotus 'reconstruction of the Persian Wars posed a serious challenge: it meant demonstrating that the falling out between two local city-states, Athens and Sparta, must be shown to eclipse both the great Greco-Persian conflict and, for good measure, the Trojan War that had preceded it.
The Great Marathon Man Green, Peter 2008
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What is needed is more technocrats, not people who know about Herodotus and the Persian Wars.
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What is needed is more technocrats, not people who know about Herodotus and the Persian Wars.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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The 1,024-page book, which has been published by Bertelsmann AG's Pantheon imprint, is illustrated with photographs, flanking footnotes and 127 maps, all intended to help readers understand where they are in Herodotus's ambitious chronicling of the Persian Wars.
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The "great story," of course, is that of the Persian Wars.
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The "great story," of course, is that of the Persian Wars.
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For the duration of the Persian Wars, all Athenians would be seamen.
The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004
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Meanwhile, far less data about the Persian Wars survives from the Persian side.
The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004
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