The Battle of Thymbra was a pivotal moment in the history of the ancient world. It was fought between the Persian Empire and ...

BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from Northern India to ...

A Research from the Academy of Athens argues that the Greeks actually chose Salamis after studying the area's climactic conditions.

The story of the Graeco-Persian wars has been often told, by ancients and moderns alike. But early in this book Shepherd, a classicist with several works on Ancient Greek history under his belt, ...

The surprise defeat of the mighty Persian Empire in 490 B.C. began the Golden Age of Athens and the Greco-Persian wars. A well-armed Greek hoplite (right) slays a Persian soldier in a detail from a ...