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 ...

Underwater archaeologists investigating Salamis, a tiny island just east of Athens, Greece, have discovered ... Great initially gained a victory at the Battle of Thermopylae, but he was decisively ...

The Battle of Salamis is sometimes known as the first great naval battle in history. The Persian Empire had overtaken much of Greece by 480 B.C. after about a decade of fighting.

SALAMINA, Greece — Greek summer is loosely ... mystique as Ithaca or fire-chiseled Santorini, Salamis has a military pedigree second to none, at least not in these parts. In its waters was fought the ...

and the naval battle of Salamis (480 BC). 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.

For thousands of years, naval battles have been some of the most decisive military conflicts. Controlling the seas allows victors to dominate ports, trade routes, and encircle opponents.

as well as a variety of ancient marble treasures, while exploring Salamis, a small island off the coast of Greece where a now-sunken city once stood.

first at sea off the island of Salamis in 480 B.C. and then on land near the city of Plataea the following year. The Persians retreated in tatters and never returned to mainland Greece.