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    The document summarizes key events of the Persian Wars between the Persian Empire and Greek city-states from 499 BC to 449 BC. It describes how Cyrus the Great first conquered Ionia for the Persian Empire in 547 BC. This led to an Ionian Revolt against Persia in 499 BC under Darius I. In 490 BC, Darius sent an army to punish Athens for supporting the revolt, but it was defeated by the Athenians at the Battle of Marathon. In 480 BC, Xerxes led a massive Persian invasion force into Greece by land and sea. The Greeks were able to defeat the first part of the Persian army at the famous Battle of Thermopylae, but were forced to

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    The document summarizes key events of the Persian Wars between the Persian Empire and Greek city-states from 499 BC to 449 BC. It describes how Cyrus the Great first conquered Ionia for the Persian Empire in 547 BC. This led to an Ionian Revolt against Persia in 499 BC under Darius I. In 490 BC, Darius sent an army to punish Athens for supporting the revolt, but it was defeated by the Athenians at the Battle of Marathon. In 480 BC, Xerxes led a massive Persian invasion force into Greece by land and sea. The Greeks were able to defeat the first part of the Persian army at the famous Battle of Thermopylae, but were forced to

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    Persian Wars (499-449bc)

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    The document summarizes key events of the Persian Wars between the Persian Empire and Greek city-states from 499 BC to 449 BC. It describes how Cyrus the Great first conquered Ionia for the Persian Empire in 547 BC. This led to an Ionian Revolt against Persia in 499 BC under Darius I. In 490 BC, Darius sent an army to punish Athens for supporting the revolt, but it was defeated by the Athenians at the Battle of Marathon. In 480 BC, Xerxes led a massive Persian invasion force into Greece by land and sea. The Greeks were able to defeat the first part of the Persian army at the famous Battle of Thermopylae, but were forced to

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    PERSIAN WARS (499-449BC)

    Darius (490) and Xerxes (480)


    Persian (Achaemenid) Empire
    Cyrus the Great conquered Ionia in 547
    BC


    Ionian Revolt 499BC

    Darius I

    Athens


    Darius I (522 BC)
    Marathon:
    Datis and Artaphernes, 490 BC
    Marathon Plain

    Miltiades (10 000)

    Persians: Nepos, Plutarch, Pausanias, Plato,
    Lysias, Justin 200-600 000!

    opportunity



    Marathon and Pheidippides
    Conflation of accounts
    Herodotus, Lucian, Robert Browning
    250 kms



    The Empire Strikes Back
    ...Xerxes
    Mt Athos and Thrace

    >1,000,000 men (Hdt 7.60-100).

    Immortals 10,000




    Xerxes at the Hellespont
    hybris

    Thermopylae

    Leonidas

    1941


    Ephialtes (3
    rd
    day)

    Little Bighorn (Battle of the Greasy
    Grass)

    Isandlwana

    Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by,
    That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

    September 480 BC: Battle of Salamis
    (Themistocles)
    The trireme, Aeschylus

    Plataea (Aug 479)

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