The Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive battles of world history, in which the small city-states of ancient Greece joined forces to take on the mighty Persian Empire. After the defeat and ...

The Battle of Salamis happened during the earlier half of the Greco-Persian Wars, a string of conflicts between ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid, or Persian, Empire that historians say ...

The Battle of Salamis, Sept. 26-27, 480 B.C. > Casualties: 300 ships lost for the Persians, 40 lost for the Greeks > Location: Saronic Gulf, Greece > Conflict: Persian invasion of Greece.

His play, THE PERSIANS, was produced shortly after the Battle of Salamis. That being said, I had some initial doubts about plunging into this performance. HELLAS is a five and a half hour commitment.