Children of the fox by Paton Walsh, Jill, 1937-2020

Subjects: “…Themistocles, approximately 524 B.C.-approximately 459 B.C. …”


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Protector : a novel of ancient Greece by Iggulden, Conn

Subjects: “…Themistocles, approximately 524 B.C.-approximately 459 B.C. …”


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Plutarch's lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Demosthenes, and Cicero, Caesar and Anthony.... by Plutarch

Subjects: “…Themistocles, approximately 524 B.C.-approximately 459 B.C.…”


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300 rise of an empire

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The savior generals : how five great commanders saved wars that were lost, from ancient Greece to Iraq by Hanson, Victor Davis

Table of Contents: “…Athens is burning: Themistocles at Salamis-September 480 B.C. -- Byzantium at the brink: the fireman Flavius Belisarius-A.D. 527-559 -- "Atlanta is ours and fairly won": William Tecumseh Sherman's gift to Abraham Lincoln-summer 1864 -- 100 days in Korea: Matthew Ridgway takes over-winter 1950-51 -- Iraq is "lost": David Petraeus and the surge in Iraq-January 2007-May 2008.…”


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Famous Greeks by Fears, J. Rufus

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Great leaders and thinkers of ancient Greece by Peterson, Megan Cooley

Table of Contents: “…Homer -- Themistocles -- Pericles -- Herodotus -- Phidias -- Plato -- Alexander the Great -- Archimedes.…”


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Leaders of ancient Greece by Nardo, Don, 1947-

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The Greeks crucible of civilization

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Selected lives and essays by Plutarch

Table of Contents: “…Lycurgus -- Numa Pompilius -- Comparison of Lycurgus and Numa -- Themistocles -- Camillus -- Pericles -- Fabius Maximus -- Comparison of Pericles and Fabius -- Alcibiades -- Gaius Marcius Coriolanus -- Comparison of Alcibiades and Coriolanus -- Demosthenes -- Cicero -- Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero -- Alexander -- Caesar -- Demetrius -- Antony -- Comparison of Demetrius and Antony -- Cato the Younger -- Essays. …”


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Empires of the word : a language history of the world by Ostler, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Themistocles' carpet -- What it takes to be a world language, or, You never can tell -- The desert blooms : language innovation in the Middle East -- Triumphs of fertility : Egyptian and Chinese -- Charming like a creeper : the cultured career of Sanskrit -- Three thousand years of solipsism : the adventures of Greek -- Contesting Europe : Celt, Roman, German and Slav -- The first death of Latin -- The second death of Latin -- Usurpers of greatness : Spanish in the New World -- In the train of empire : Europe's languages abroad -- Microcosm or distorting mirror? …”


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Sailing true north : ten admirals and the voyage of character by Stavridis, James

Table of Contents: “…The power of persuasion : Themistocles -- A sailor of the Middle Kingdom : Zheng He -- A pirate and a patriot : Sir Francis Drake -- The Band of Brothers : Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Horatio Nelson -- The influencer : Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan -- Rum, buggery, and the lash : Admiral Lord John Arbuthnot Fisher -- The Admiral's Admiral : Fleet Admiral Chester W. …”


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The lives of the noble Grecians and Romans. by Plutarch

Table of Contents: “…Theseus -- Romulus -- Romulus and Theseus compared -- Lycurgus -- Numa Pompilius -- Lycurgus and Numa compared -- Solon -- Poplicola -- Poplicola and Solon compared -- Themistocles -- Camillus -- Pericles -- Fabius -- Fabius and Pericles compared -- Alcibiades -- Coriolanus -- Alcibiades and Coriolanus compared -- Timoleon -- Aemilius Paulus -- Aemilius Paulus and Timoleon compared -- Pelopidas -- Marcellus -- Marcellus and Pelopidas compared -- Aristides -- Marcus Cato -- Aristides and Marcus Cato compared -- Philopoeman -- Flamininus -- Flamininus and Philopoeman compared -- Pyrrhus -- Caius Marius -- Lysander -- Sulla -- Lysander and Sulla compared -- Cimon -- Lucullus -- Cimon and Lucullus compared -- Nicias -- Crassus -- Crassus and Nicias compared -- Sertorius -- Eumenus -- Eumenus and Sertorius compared -- Agesilaus -- Pompey -- Agesilaus and Pompey compared -- Alexander -- Caesar -- Phocion -- Cato the Younger -- Agis -- Cleomenes -- Tiberius Gracchus -- Caius Gracchus -- Caius and Tiberius Gracchus and Agis and Cleomenes compared -- Demosthenes -- Cicero -- Cicero and Demosthenes compared -- Demetrius -- Antony -- Antony and Demetrius compared -- Dion -- Marcus Brutus -- Brutus and Dion compared -- Aratus -- Artaxerxes -- Galba -- Otho.…”


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The rise of Athens : the story of the world's greatest civilization by Everitt, Anthony

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Troublemakers the story of land art

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