In 479 BC, the Persian army under Mardonius faced a Greek coalition near Plataea in one of the decisive battles of the second ...
After Thermopylae, the Persian invasion looked unstoppable. Athens was burned, Greek unity was fragile, and surrender seemed inevitable. But at Salamis, Greece forced Persia into the worst kind of ...
Views on this issue often have a partisan slant. Republicans express more concern about presidential power when Democrats control the White House, and vice versa. In it, Herodotus analyzed the Persian ...