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 ...

Salamis is best known for its role in the Persian Wars, which Greece fought against the Achaemenid (Persian) Empire from 499 to 449 B.C. During the second Persian invasion, in 480 B.C., Xerxes the ...

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 ...

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.

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.

What technology could change the way we learn about shipwrecks 05:06. Researchers have discovered 10 shipwrecks, including one estimated to be more than 5,000 years old, off the coast of Greece ...