Together the two major powers in Greece had united to fend off the onslaught of the mighty Persian Empire at the battles of Thermopylae, Marathon, Salamis and Plataiai, in a titanic struggle to safeguard Greek independence, and, incidentally, the nascent Western ..... When news reached Athens, his estate was confiscated, and he was sentenced to death in absentia. But his countrymen were soon to discover that he was very much alive. He turned up in, of all places, Sparta! ...
i know only one instance in which a greek source reports about the heavy persian cavalry, herodotus and his report about the death of the cavalry general masistios during xerxes's greece expedition and the battle of bplataiai/b. ...
When news reached Athens, his estate was confiscated, and he was sentenced to death in absentia. But his countrymen were soon to discover that he was very much alive. He turned up in, of all places, Sparta! He went before the Spartan ...
