The heroic last stand by 300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae is the most famous incident from the Persians’ failed attempt to conquer Greece in 480 BC. The Persian king Xerxes had invaded ...

After the defeat and death of the Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, the Persians burned Athens, and the Greek alliance seemed close to collapse. ... Salamis 480 BC: The Battle for Greece.

It's the buffed-up version of the Battle of Thermopylae. 480 BC. Spartans versus Persians. The few against the many. Critics hate it. So does Iran, heir of Persia. But it's a smash.

In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in ...

The Battle of Thermopylae. Source: Wikimedia Commons. The second invasion of Greece, led by Xerxes I, was launched in 480 BC. In August, Xerxes was due to reach Thermopylae, a narrow pass ...

Since Thermopylae did not stop the Persians, it cannot be called a strategic turning-point: the key engagements were the two major Greek victories of Salamis (later in 480 BC) and Plataea (in the ...

New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xxx, 204. Illus, maps, chron., notes, biblio., index. $24.95. ISBN: 0199747326 As the primary source of the Graeco-Persian Wars, the historian, Herodotus ...

The famous battle of Thermopylae, which took place in 480 BC between a massive Persian force led by the King Xerxes and a small band of Greeks headed by 300 Spartans and led by the popular King ...