of Thermopylae thər-mop-i-lee[->0]) The battle was fought around August 7th or September 8th‚ in the year of 490 B.C. It was fought by the alliance of the Greek city-states under the power of King Leonidas of the Spartans and the Persian Empire Xerxes. A force of 7‚300 Greek men marched to guard the passage of Thermopylae. King Leonidas heard that a force of Persian troops were marching to take the passage‚ which was vital to the Greeks. The passage was an entrance into the city of Athens.
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Stories can teach you many important subjects in life that can lead you forward into the life story you are creating. Courage is something a lot of us have but we have it hidden inside us only to use when we need to the most. In addition to courage comes irony one of the flaws life has in store for people who act always on their words. Furthermore comes hypocrisy when someone claims something is wrong‚ but does it themselves formerly leading to that person to lose respect from others. Provided that
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Persians under the rule of King Xerxes have already taken over some of Greece’s city-states‚ and now threaten Sparta and Athens. A messenger sent by Xerxes attempts to present King Leonidas of Sparta with two options: either have to sacrifice the well-being of Sparta or have it burn to the ground. With submission not being an option‚ Leonidas forms an army of 300 Spartan warriors to block the narrow passage of Thermopylae where Xerxes intends to reach Hellas. The 300 are accompanied
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them off. (Battle of Thermopylae) In September of 480 B.C. King Xerxes then takes his army to Athens and captured it. The Greek navy was on the isle of Salamis‚ which is right next to Athens. Early in the morning of a September day the Persians entered a narrow straight‚ this was between the island of Salamis and the Athenian port-city. Themistocles‚ the leader of Greeks army‚ took his army to destroy the Persians. Xerxes watched his ships and a third of his amy get defeated by a nearby hill
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displays‚ while the smaller creatures bother him not at all? Do you see how his bolts fall without fail on the biggest houses and trees? ...For the god does not allow anyone but himself to think grand thoughts” (7.10). Artabanus is trying to talk Xerxes out of war‚ using a very simple and well-understood reason: stand up at the gods’ level and you will get what you deserve. If a mortal does grand things too often‚ the gods will strike down upon him because a mortal is just a mortal and should remain
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Both "The Persians" and "The Histories" contain information regarding the battle of Salamis. "The Persians" is set in the period between the battle of Salamis and the deciding battle of Platea‚ and although a work of fiction‚ it has many valuable and useful bits of information. Firstly‚ it was written earlier than The Histories‚ by someone who had been in the battle itself. Therefore‚ most of the information would be accurate to Aeschylus. However‚ when in the heat of battle‚ no-one knows exactly
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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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defend against the Persians. The battle takes place simultaneously with the sea battle at Artemisium. Though Xeones is critically wounded in the battle‚ the Persian King Xerxes orders his surgeons to make every effort to keep the captive squire alive. The book is Xeones’ narration of the battle and events leading up to it to Xerxes and his royal scribe as the Persian army advances toward Athens. Much of the narrative explores Spartan society‚ particularly the agoge‚ which is the military training program
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history. It was the invasion of Greece from 480 BC to 479 BC; King Xerxes I‚ of Persia‚ was determined to conquer Greece during the Greco-Persian Wars; he had an army of over 100‚000 men. The invasion was an immediate call to the defeat of the first Persian war of Greece that lasted from 492 BC to 490 BC at the Battle of Marathon. This first invasion ended ruler Darius I’s endeavor to subjugate Greece. After his death‚ Xerxes‚ his son‚ planned the second war and gathered an enormous navy and army
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Colonization and Maritime Navigation COLONISATION As Greece is comprised of many islands‚ the sea has always played an important role in its history. Colonization of surrounding areas began during the Geometric Period (900-700 BCE)‚ and continued throughout Archaic and Classical Greece. Starting around 700-600 BCE the more powerful Greek city states gradually began establishing colonies‚ first in the Mediterranean‚ and then all the way from western Asia Minor‚ to southern Italy‚ Sicily‚ North
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