Which Persian king was the wealthiest: Xerxes or Artaxerxes? Which Persian king invaded Greece in the Battle of Marathon? What king added Egypt to the Persian Empire? Who was the King of Sparta when King Artaxerxes reigned? Who was the king of Persia during the Ionian Revolt?
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...
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 a...
Earlier than the (mostly failed) attempts by the Persian kings Darius and Xerxes to control Greece, the Achaemenid empire was enormous, and Persian King Cambyses had extended the Persian Empire around the Mediterranean coast by absorbingGreek colonies. Some Greekpoleis(Thessaly, Boeotia, Thebes, an...
Which Persian Gulf nation was invaded by Iraq in 1990? What country did Iraq invade during the Persian Gulf War? Who was at war in the Iranian Revolution? What battle eliminated Persian influence in Greece and Athens? Where did Syrian Civil War start? Where did the Barbary War occur? Where...
Which Persian king invaded Greece in the Battle of Marathon? What countries and regions became part of the Persian Empire? What was a satrap in the Persian Empire? How did Athenians live before the Peloponnesian War? Who were the immortals in the Persian Empire? What did Cleon do in the ...
the debacle at Salamis. According to Mardonios there was a way to invade the Peloponnese even without a ferry and he argued with the King that he could proceed to that invasion the following year if he had 300,000 men, that is, half of the army that had come to Greece in 380 B.C...
but these would be mere quackery because Herodotos was a pretender who tried to ape the scientific style that was being born in Greece at the time. According to Niebuhr "when Herodotos was observing and writing, there were indeed more than a few Greeks who had more than an elementary knowled...