THERMOPYLAE, Greece (Reuters) - Flaming torches raised, far-right Golden Dawn supporters dressed in black chanted the Greek national anthem as darkness fell on Thermopylae, where King Leonidas and 300 ...

Outnumbered and undaunted, Spartan warriors and other Greek troops held firm in the face of Persia's might, until treachery brought King Xerxes' fury down upon them in 480 B.C. Undaunted“By this time ...

Xerxes had spent years planning his invasion of Greece. It was to be his 'divine punishment' for his father, Darius' crushing defeat at Marathon in 490 BC. Now, a decade later, he had spared no ...

Oxford University classics scholar Kershaw (The Enemies of Rome) explores in this detailed and wide-ranging history the immediate and long-term impacts of the Persian Wars in ancient Greece. Drawing ...

In 480 BC, King Leonidas of Sparta and 300 of his warriors made their legendary last stand at Thermopylae. Facing a Persian army numbering in the hundreds of thousands, the Spartans held their ground ...

Smarting under the defeat of Marathon, Persia’s great Xerxes crossed the Hellespont on a bridge of boats in the summer of 480 B. c., and marched through Thessaly. Herodotus recorded that he had ...