The Temple of Athena Polias in Priene, an ancient Greek city at the base of Mycale’s escarpment, the battleground where Greeks and Persians clashed in history. Credit: Flickr / Egisto Sani CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED The battle of Mycale is one of the very few battles that were of such critical
The Greeks under Histiaeus preserved the bridge of Darius I across the Danube River. 19th-century illustration. Credit: The story of Histiaeus and the Ionian Revolt, which would ultimately help set the stage for the wars between the Ancient Greeks and Persians, is a historical footnote that
Iranian officials visit the Xerxes Canal site in northern Greece. Credit: Evangelos Venetis For the first time since Xerxes’ fleet famously passed through the canal in Greece on the narrow isthmus connecting the Mount Athos Peninsula with the rest of Chalkidiki 2,500 years ago, descendants of the
