including headings The Ionian rebellion, Marathon, Themistocles and the fleet, Thermopylae, Salamis, ...
In 480 the threat from Persia brings Sparta and Athens together, with most of the other city-states of mainland Greece, in a rare show of unity. During the Greco-Persian wars the leading position of Sparta is acknowledge...
With the rise of the Persian empire to the east, and the combined strength of Greece to the west, Anatolia acquires the role which it will fulfil through much of history - that of a buffer state, over which the powers of...
The decision of the Athenians to invest heavily in a fleet of triremes, in 483 BC, is a turning point in the Greco-Persian war and in the development of Greek democracy - since the poorer citizens can now for the first t...
