A new exhibition titled “Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece,” on view at the British Museum through August 13, reexamines that stale, Orientalist worldview. Instead, ...

THE only thing which could possibly justify any writer in presenting at this date a new version of the wonderful drama acted by Greeks and Persians on land and sea in the years 480-479 B. C. would ...

The Persians by the Greek playwright Aeschylus, who actually fought at the Battle of Salamis, imagines the scene in the Persian capital in the wake of the empire’s disastrous defeat.

A Greek View of War's Tragedy: 'The Persians' Aeschylus' tragedy The Persians is the first play based not on myth, but on a historical fact: the defeat of the Persian army at the Battle of Salamis.

ATHENS — Compared with the Persian Gulf right now, the Black Sea war zone could almost be called placid. After Iran warned that it could follow Friday’s seizure of two Greek tankers with more such ...

The British Museum’s “Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece” shows the power of ancient Persian style, and how it influenced Persia’s Greek antagonists as they too gained a taste for empire.

Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized two Greek oil tankers Friday in helicopter-launched raids in the Persian Gulf, officials said.The action appeared to be retaliation for Athens ...

Essentially the ancient-world equivalent of a story torn from the headlines, Persians recounts how overwhelmingly outnumbered Greek ships defeated the invading fleet of Xerxes’ navy at the ...