Herodotus tended to put his political philosophies into the mouths of historical figures such as Miltiades. He condensed his ...

Scylax of Caryanda was a Greek explorer sent by Persian King Darius I to chart the Indus River, shaping early Greek ...

Persian guards. Persepolis, Persia Xerxes had spent years planning his invasion of Greece. It was to be his 'divine punishment' for his father Darius' crushing defeat at Marathon in 490 BC.

In addition, he said the Persians learnt pederasty from the Greeks, and Thales, the seventh century BCE Greek natural philosopher from the Asia Minor polis of Miletos, was Phoenician in origin. [2] ...

Greek actress Lydia Koniordou directs and stars in The Persians. You could say that The Persians, which was written in 472 BC, was the first docudrama.

The Greeks pushed back Xerxes’ men time after time, and Persian casualties mounted. Before the first day was over, Xerxes had assembled his best troops—an elite group of 10,000 men under the ...

The Greeks lost 40 ships, the Persians 200. Unable to keep his land army supplied Xerxes was forced to flee back to his empire, parts of which, encouraged by the Greeks' success, had already ...

One bright spring day in 480 B.C., the Persian King Xerxes was reviewing his vast land and sea forces, mustered at the Dardanelles strait for his great invasion of Greece. When he saw the whole ...

After two days of grueling combat, the Greeks were betrayed by a villager named Ephialtes, who showed the Persians a hidden trail behind the Spartan line. Knowing their position was no longer ...

This is also the reason why the Greeks, as Æschylos says, were not visible to the Persians until they came forth to battle. An attentive reading of the messenger’s speech can leave no doubt in ...