The showdown between the ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia was one of the pivotal moments of ...

The so-called Ionian Revolt was the beginning of a series of events and war reprisals between Ancient Greeks and Persians.

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only ...

The final land battle between the Persians and the Greeks took place a year later in the region of Boeotia, near the town of Plataeae. During the intervening year the Persian force, now led by the ...

By night he sent a messenger to the Persian king, Xerxes, informing him that the Greeks intended to flee. Unless he acted now, Xerxes would lose the opportunity to defeat the Greeks in one fell swoop.

"A 'Pax Persica' [Persian Peace] renowned for its tolerance" likely would have prevailed from the borders of Greece to India," Holt said, as Persia would have continued to control much of the ...

Only the threat of invasion by a foreign enemy made the Greeks forget their quarrels and fight on the same side. Their biggest enemy were the Persians, who came from an area around modern day Iran.

It’s all down to a young king called Alexander. He led his army to take over Greece, Persia, Egypt and even part of India. He ruled so much of the world they called him ‘Alexander the Great’.

In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in ...