ASIN: B07D7K929H
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 537
The Demos, and the entire Greek culture lay on the brink of mutilation.In Asia, the greatest Empire that the world had known, lead by an enigmatic monarch, was preparing for genocide. The great Persian King Xerxes, tasted the blood of revenge against the Greek Peninsula. He had a specific hatred for Athens, as he viewed that city and its radical beliefs as the root of all evil in the world. He could not rid his throat of the taste of defeat at Marathon. He promised his dead relatives and his God, that he would lay waste to Athens. And yet, such an undertaking was costly and dangerous. So even though he had set the wheels of revenge in motion, he hesitated and sought assurances of the righteousness of his decision.At the same time in history, the Greek Peninsula was bubbling with change. The roots of a democracy, the Demos, was being hatched in Athens. The city states were all ...
