Persians, Spartans, Leonidas, Xerxes, Ephialtes… Everyone has heard these names and can place them—more or less—in the 4th century BCE, when the Battle of Thermopylae took place. It was one of the key ...

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Shortly before unleashing his million-strong army on European soil, the Persian Emperor Xerxes was confronted with his chief ...

Xerxes (Khshayarsha in Persian transcription) was by no means the least of them. All the same, it would be fair to say that since the 1950s there has been a twofold revolution in ancient Persian ...

In the sweep and vividness of his prose Tom Holland does the subject proud, and he is also good at trying to look at the conflict as much through Persian eyes as Greek, and at getting inside the ...

to Persian King Xerxes’ demand that the Spartan army lay down their weapons and surrender to his army. The outnumbered Greeks were eventually annihilated, though they held Thermopylae for three days ...

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You can get in touch with Amir by emailing [email protected]. Languages: English and Farsi Seafarers in the Persian Gulf have been warned of possible attempts by Iran's Revolutionary Guard to ...

The heroic Leonidas, armed with nothing but leather underwear and a cape, leads a ragtag group of thirteen Spartans to defend their homeland against the invading Persians (whose ranks include ...