Fact or Fiction: The Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) between Greeks and Persians ... 300 Spartan soldiers holding off an enormous Persian army. The Battle of Thermopylae has become the stuff ...

Just 50 kilometers south of Athens, between Thoricus and Cape Sounion, lies the mines of Laurion. Silver, copper, lead have ...

Ancient Greece's Special Forces, from the Sacred Band of Thebes to the Hetairoi of Alexander the Great's army, became ...

In Part 1, we look at the background: Persia's invasion of Greece in 480 BC ... and a formidable army. In 334 BC he used this army to launch a invasion of the Persian Empire, winning a crucial ...

When the Persian king, Xerxes, invaded Greece in the spring of 480 BC, he did so at the head of vast army. Once the Spartan force at Thermopylae had been defeated, his route by land to Athens was ...

In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in ...

In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in ...