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 myth of Sparta’s martial prowess owes much of its power to a storied feat of heroism accomplished by Leonidas, king of Sparta and hero of the celebrated Battle of Thermopylae (480 B.C.).

BRENDA GRIFFITH-WILLIAMS, THE SUCCESSION TO THE SPARTAN KINGSHIP, 520-400 BC, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Vol. 54, No. 2 (2011), pp. 43-58 ...

In the late summer of 480 BC, almost the entire population of Athens abandoned their city in a fleet of ships bound for the town of Troizen on the Peloponnese. Crammed into every sea-worthy vessel ...