The League of Corinth was an initiative of King Philip II of Macedon to unite all Greek city-states against the Persian ...

By night he sent a messenger to the Persian king, Xerxes, informing him that the Greeks intended to flee. Unless he acted now, Xerxes would lose the opportunity to defeat the Greeks in one fell swoop.

The Persian kings tried to conquer Greece a few times but the Greeks managed to fight them off. In the end, the Greeks led by Alexander the Great defeated the Persian Empire in the 330sBC.

The Greeks started trading more with the outside world, held the first Olympic Games and they fought off the invading Persian army. This period is known by historians as the Archaic period of ...

The final land battle between the Persians and the Greeks took place a year later in the region of Boeotia, near the town of Plataeae. During the intervening year the Persian force, now led by the ...

He dismisses sensible advice given by wise Greeks, runs away in battle ... captured Darius’ family at the Battle of Issus, the Persian king exclaimed his gratitude for his opponent’s fair ...

HERNDON, Va. — The DMV is home to many different cultures, including one of the largest Persian communities in the U.S. This week, they are celebrating their traditional New Year, Nowruz ...

In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in ...