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

The 300 or so Spartans helped hold off an enormous Persian Army for three days ... funding for the Spartan Navy in the Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.), but who foolishly ordered his ship to ...

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 Persian kings tried to conquer Greece ... hair long and would comb it before going into battle. Fighting wars was what the Spartans did best. They believed that strict discipline and a tough ...

Without Spartan participation in the war against Persia at the beginning ... of Plataea in 479 B.C., which effectively ended all Persian attempts to invade the Greek lands. At other times, Sparta ...

A highly successful 'war machine', the phalanx was used primarily ... though in time they adopted tactics to overcome the close combat favored by Greek armies. During the 5th century BC, swords ...

a Spartan warrior named Dienekes was told that the Persian archers could blank out the sun with their arrows. He replied "Good, then we shall have our battle in the shade." A Sybarite, who ate at ...

The Persian kings tried to conquer Greece ... hair long and would comb it before going into battle. Fighting wars was what the Spartans did best. They believed that strict discipline and a tough ...