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

In history, few replies have ever carried as much weight, defiance, and wit as a single word once uttered by the Spartans: ...

Then news reached him of an advancing Spartan army ... The defeat of the Persian navy at Salamis in 480 was by no means the end of the war, but it was the decisive battle that made ultimate ...

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 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 ...

Greek historian Herodotus ... king who dared to attack continental Greece in 480 B.C. during the Greco-Persian wars, was foremost among these. The Greeks’ biased portrayal of the Persian ...

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 ...

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 ...