Pretty good, mostly. There’s not a lot of info on this battle, only two sources and Cartledge sticks mostly to Herodotus. He spends half the book giving background on the Athenians, the Spartans and the Persians and the political situation, then just a few pages on the battle, then another big chunk on the meaning of it all.
And he tries to make it relevant to the modern day reader, which kind of didn’t work for me.
But interesting.
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