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The superpower was Persia, whose kings had founded the first world empire, incomparably rich in ambition, gold, and men. The terrorist states were Athens and Sparta, exotic cities located in a poor, mountainous, distant land: Greece. The success of the Persian enterprise against the Greeks should have been just another formal chapter in history. Over the course of seventy years, victory—always swift and spectacular—seemed a natural attribute of the Persians. In the space of just a generation, they swept across the Middle East, razed ancient kingdoms, and seized illustrious cities with brutal violence, shaping an empire that stretched from India to the Aegean coast. In the face of these conquests, Xerxes, called the \"King of Kings,\" held the title of most powerful man on the planet. But somehow, amazingly, even fighting the largest expeditionary force ever assembled, the Greeks managed to resist. The Persians were forced to retreat, and Greece remained free. Had they been defeated in the memorable naval battle of Salamis, not only would the West have lost its first war of independence, but it is quite likely that the very notion of the West would never have existed. Athens' charge at Marathon; Xerxes driving his chariot from Asia to Europe; the Spartans' final stand at Thermopylae: all are scenes illuminated by an unparalleled epic brilliance. PERSIAN FIRE dramatizes not only the great conflict itself, but also the extraordinary context surrounding it. From the temple priests of Babylon to the Spartan secret police; from the Persian love of ducks and gardens to the Athenian fixation on prostitutes; from Darius, assassin, usurper, and supreme political genius in Middle Eastern history, to Themistocles, the man who saved the West: all are brought to dazzling life in Tom Holland's narrative.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175651197180,"sku":"9788501076816","price":84.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"dominio-1","title":"Domain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristianity was the most transformative event in Western history and the most enduring and influential legacy the ancient world left us. \u003cem\u003eDominion\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of how Christianity transformed our way of being and thinking\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e How did a cult inspired by the execution of a criminal in a long-vanished empire manage to have such a global impact? Tom Holland seeks to answer this question in \u003cem\u003eDominion\u003c\/em\u003e , analyzing the most widespread currents of Christian influence in the Western world. Even those who have abandoned the faith of their fathers and consider religion mere superstition remain its heirs in some way, since the ethics and morals we have are not universal values, but the fruit of a very specific civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe belief that the Son of the one God of the Jews was tortured to death on a cross was so enduring and widespread that today, almost no one in the West realizes how scandalous its origins were. 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