With the kind of tremulous fervour that only prepubescent boys can work up on the subject of war, it recounts how the barbarous invading hordes of Persia were heroically held back by just 300 oiled and muscly Spartan warriors long enough for the Greek armies to regroup and for Athenian democracy - and by implication, all our inherited western values - to be saved for ever more.
Other offerings for June include "Outright Barbarous: How the Violent Language of the Right Poisons American Democracy" by Jeffrey Feldman, and "Mudbound," a debut novel by Hillary Jordan.
The unfriendly partners in this dialogue are really discussing, in their separate books, a weighty, barbarous question: How much of one's humanity can a person give up to save his own life?
How a network of courageous Germans fought a barbarous status quo.
If you are barbarous the first time, that is how you'll be known.
Then, as now, we as a nation were desperate to reaffirm what our republic was meant to be, how it wanted to survive, how it would overcome barbarous aggression, as well as the country's failures and divisions.
Whether she's holding forth on how mirrors make her look fat, how children are nothing but "barbarous monkeys" or how she wishes she were a man "so that I could attack somebody with a lance," she's the bad girl you love to hate: a busty and lusty early feminist.
It tells the Oz-like story of how the mighty dollar became (literally) as good as gold, deposing Keynes's "barbarous relic".
It's about the excruciating persistence of unrequited love — how a person can turn herself inside out, and still be met with barbarous indifference.
I want him to do skits about how we reached an Iranian-US nuclear deal, how followers of ISIL justify a barbarous caliphate, or on the idiocy of political candidates running for office.
