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 expense ...

One bright spring day in 480 B.C., the Persian King Xerxes was reviewing his vast land and sea forces, mustered at the Dardanelles strait for his great invasion of Greece. When he saw the whole ...

From the rise of Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BCE to the vast dominion of Darius and Xerxes, the First Persian Empire—also known as the Achaemenid Empire—expanded to become the largest the ...

This book has been a long time coming. Dark Horse published Frank Miller's original 300 miniseries way back in 1998. Since then, we've seen a film adaptation and a prequel, but only now has Miller ...