When Things Got Tough
Peter Green: The Sacking of Athens, 7 September 2017
Athens Burning: The Persian Invasion of Greece and the Evacuation of Attica
by Robert Garland.
Johns Hopkins, 170 pp., £15, February 2017,978 1 4214 2196 4 Show More
by Robert Garland.
Johns Hopkins, 170 pp., £15, February 2017,
“... the women and children all feared they might never see each other again. Half a millennium later, Plutarch imagined the shrieks, tears and embraces as they parted, and the desperate howls of the pet dogs left behind. Worst of all, they had to abandon the tombs of their ancestors to desecration and cut themselves off from their religious rituals. We do not ... ”