The Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive battles of world history, in which the small city-states of ancient Greece joined forces to take on the mighty Persian Empire. After the defeat and death ...

She married the king of Halicarnassus in 500 BC, just prior to the Ionian Revolt that helped trigger the war between Greece and Persia. Her husband, whose name has been lost to history ...

Ionian Greek conscripts, drafted into the Persian army, are believed to have further aided the Athenian cause by passing on information about the Persian cavalry which, after a four day standoff ...

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