In 480 BCE, the Persian king Xerxes (486-465 BCE) decided to avenge his father's defeat at Marathon. With a huge army and a large navy he invaded the Greek mainland, and defeated his enemies at Thermopylae. Thessaly and Boeotia were added to the Persian possessions and Athens was captured...
they sent a runner named Pheidippides to tell the Athenians of the victory and thus the modern marathon was born. The Persians were not done with Greece, however. They invaded again 10 years
the Greeks built a stone lion in honour of those who had died and specifically for the fallen king Leonidas. In 1955 a statue of Leonidas was erected by KingPaulof Greece in commemoration of his and his troops’bravery. The Battle of Thermopylae also served as the inspiration for the film...
According to the Greek historianHerodotus, Mardonius was one of those who encouraged KingXerxes I, Darius’ successor, to invadeGreece. After the Achaemenid defeat at Salamis he persuaded Xerxes to return to Asia and himself stayed behind with a large army. He unsuccessfully attempted to separate...
Once it is recognized that the King was not a liar when he set up a stele stating that he had marched with 700,000 men, it must be concluded on the basis of the parallel with the expedition of King Xerxes into Greece, that the advance across the Bosphoros, the conquest of Thrakia ...
Darius I (fourth Persian king of the Achmaenids, ruled 522 to 486 BCE) Mardonius (military commander who died at the Battle of Plataea) Datis (Median admiral at Naxos and Eretria, and leader of the assault force at Marathon) Artaphernes (Persian satrap at Sardis, responsible for suppres...
facts about each of the kings who ruled the Achaemenid Empire, beginning with Cyrus the Great, who became king in 559 BCE and later converted his kingdom into the Achaemenid Empire after conquering the Median Empire. The cards cover expansion of the empire and invasions of Egypt and Greece. ...