the eventual winner of the Elephant/Whale standoff in the Peloponnesian War would be determined by which power mastered the forte of the other, then land-power Sparta’s new navy between 413 and 404 ...

Read More: What Ancient Laws Can Teach Us About Holding Autocrats to Account Today After the Persian Wars, the glory-seeking Spartans actually fought less often, for shorter periods, and at less ...

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 ...

Sparta was at the forefront of the Greco-Persian Wars (499–449 BC) and, along with Athens, led the unified Greece to victory. The second invasion of Greece, led by Xerxes I, was launched in 480 BC.

The Persian kings tried to conquer Greece ... hair long and would comb it before going into battle. Fighting wars was what the Spartans did best. They believed that strict discipline and a tough ...

The Noam Murro-directed film is not a straight sequel to the Greco-Persian War. Instead, it parallels and overlaps the first film. Queen Gorgo of Sparta recounts the events leading up to the ...

Queen Gorgo attempts to convince councilman Theron to help her win enough votes from the council to send the Spartan army to support her husband's war efforts against the Persian empire.

That is why Pausanias began dressing in the Eastern style and adopting Persian customs—something so offensive in Greek eyes that he was put on trial ... decades and ultimately led to the Peloponnesian ...

The Greek-Persian wars were wars of two opposing ideologies; and we are the heirs to Greece's astonishing victory. We should be deeply grateful. Without the Greek victories over monolithic Persia ...