It took place simultaneously with the naval battle at Artemisium, in August or September 480 BC, at the narrow coastal pass of Thermopylae, or the Hot Gates. The Persian invasion was a delayed ...

In 480 BC, Persian forces led by King Xerxes I burned down the city of Athens, as well as the Acropolis, in what is called “the Persian Destruction of Athens.” The destruction of the great city took ...

The stage was set for an Achaemenid Thermopylae. Alexander the Great had ... attempting to gather a new army after the disastrous defeat at the battle of Gaugamela in late 331 BCE.

The Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive ... After the defeat and death of the Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, the Persians burned Athens, and the Greek alliance seemed close to collapse.

In 480 BC, 300 men fought against the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. With no help from their ...

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 ...