real life he had a beard and was much shorter he also never came to the front line at the Battle of Thermopylae. An accuracy in the second movie would be when the Allied navy lurid them into a trap in a narrow water way. The inaccuracy is when Themistocles and Artemisia had a meeting in neutral waters on a ship this did not happen. The two movies in my opinion are a good historical tool‚ but they could be better some scenes did not need to happen‚ and some things could have been
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communicative navy‚ this logistical exercise took nearly four years to prepare. Hearing of Xerxes planned invasion in just 481 BC simultaneously resulted in a quick development of the Greek war force‚ instructed mainly by the Hellenic League and Themistocles. As Herodotus
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power in the world at that time was Persia. Athens was attacked by the Persians in the battle of Marathon. Athens asked for Sparta’s help‚ but did not receive it. Though outnumbered‚ Athens won the battle. A man who participated in the war was Themistocles. He was risen to power
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Herodotus‚ 366 triremes. The Persian Armada however‚ included 1‚207 triremes. The Athenians were facing a seemingly unstopable force. However‚ in middle 480 B.C‚ a storm arose and destroyed one third of Darius’s fleet. The Greeks had two commnaders‚ Themistocles of Athens and
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10‚000 | True | | False | Question 5 of 60 After Darius I died‚ his son _____ took over. | Leonidas | | Darius II | | Themistocles | | Xerxes | Question 6 of 60 He was the Spartan king responsible for defending the pass at Thermopylae during the second Persian invasion. | Miliades | | Xerxes | | Leonidas | | Themistocles | Question 7 of 60 Which of the following BEST describes the military history of the Persian Wars? | Greek unity was crucial in the
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usChristina Bramanti October 5‚ 2012 CLAS 20105 The Role of Oracles‚ and Dreams in Herodotus’ The History Throughout Herodotus’ The History‚ Oracles‚ and dreams play an important role. While the gods have almost no presence throughout the book‚ the Oracles and/or dreams are linked to many of the major events. We first encounter the Oracles in Book I‚ when Croesus asks the Oracles at Delphi if he should attack the Persians‚ the Oracle replies telling him (in a very ambiguous way) that if
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Ionian Revolt: Ionian Revolt: The Ionian Revolt began began 499 BC was a series of military revolts from the people of ionia against the persian empire ‚ancient Greek colonies Mysia ‚Lydia‚Caria and Lycia that rebelled against the geographical enormous persian empire. During the arcade age a lot of Greek cities sent out expeditions to colonise the mediterranean‚Herodotus the father of western history‚gives the only greek historian text about the only persian wars written at the time of the period
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The Persian Wars Eric D. Blanco Persia‚ known as Iran‚ was the largest empire the world had ever seen by the 5th century B.C.E. The name Iran derives from the word “Asyran‚” and during the first half of the first millennium‚ the Iranian-speaking people moved gradually into the area of the Zagros Mountains‚ the largest groups known as the Medes and Persians. According the author of The Greek and Persian Wars 499-386 BC by Philip de Souza‚ The Persians were part of a group of ancient
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The Persian Wars were wars that were fought by Greek States and Persia over almost half a century. The Persian Wars started from two conflicts that occurred between 490 and 479 B.C.E and set against the Persian Empire against the Greek city-states. The conflict began after Athens and Eretria helped the Ionians in their revolution against Persia. The first Persian War was the Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. The Persians sailed down the coast of Greece and landed at the bay of Marathon‚ about
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Lapierre‚ Dominique; Moro‚ Javier (2001) Kovel‚ J. (2002). The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?. London: Zed Books. Singh‚ Jaspreet (2007) D ’Silva‚ Themistocles (2006). The Black Box of Bhopal: A Closer Look at the World ’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster. D ’Silva‚ Themistocles (1986)
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