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By Dr. Arthur Keaveney

In 490 BC Darius I, nice King of Persia and the main strong guy on this planet, led an immense invasion military to punish the interference of a few minor states at the western borders of his large empire. the most enemy used to be Athens. the ensuing conflict of Marathon used to be a catastrophe for Darius and essentially the most well-known victories for the underdog in all army historical past. The Persians have been compelled to withdraw and plot a bigger day trip to overcome Athens and the complete of Greece as soon as and for all.The moment invasion got here ten years later, lower than Darius' successor, Xerxes. This resulted in the mythical final stand of the Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, the sacking of Athens and the recognized naval conflict at Salamis, which kept Greece. the subsequent yr, 479 BC observed the rest Persian forces pushed from mainland Greece on the epic, but strangelyless- recognized conflict of Plataea, one of many greatest pitched battles of the Classical Greek international. Dr Arthur Keaveney, knowledgeable on Achaemenid Persia, re examines those momentous, epoch-defining occasions from either Greek and Persian viewpoint to offer a whole and balanced account in accordance with the latest research.

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