The once-in-a-lifetime journey continues for KTBS 3's Rick Rowe and his fellow travelers. They are making amazing memories as they explore Ancient Greece on their vacation with Collette. One of the ...
THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE is one of the signal symbolic events in the history of Western civilization. Athens and Jerusalem are the standard shorthands for the West’s cultural headwaters, but at ...
One of the key moments in Herodotus’ chronicle of the Persian wars comes at the narrow mountain passage of Thermopylae. Hopelessly outnumbered, but never outclassed, 300 Spartans led a contingent of ...
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 ...
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Battle of Thermopylae - Spartans vs Persians
Western Democracy traces its roots to ancient Greece, a land of squabbling city-states. Amongst these warring city-states ...
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 ...
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