The defeat of the Persian navy at Salamis in 480 was by no means the end of the war, but it was the decisive battle that made ultimate victory likely, if not inevitable. The final land battle ...

It was the year 467 BC when an enraged woman approached the door of the Temple of Athena Chalkioikos in Sparta and placed a ...

Hoplite infantrymen were the military ideal of ancient Greece and were recruited ... full armor during the battles of Marathon in 490 and Plataea 479. These hoplite runs were celebrated in the ...

Plataea was at the time a pawn in a war of the ancient Greek superpowers, Athens and Sparta, and was besieged by the Theban allies of Sparta, who coveted Plataea’s territory. When they could ...