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 the Hellenic equivalent of the Hollywood awards season, when all eyes are on the A-list celebrities who keep an entire industry afloat. Here, those stars ...

Wilhelm von Kaulbach’s depiction of the Battle of Salamis. Photo: Bridgeman Images The history of classical Greece is largely defined by divisions, both within and between city-states.

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.