| | - Herodotus Solon and Croesus
The messengers who had the charge of conveying these treasures to the shrines, received instructions to ask the oracles whether Croesus should go to war with the Persians and if so, whether he should strengthen himself by the forces of an ally. Accor ...
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/herodotus-creususandsolon.html
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- The Battle of Thermopylae
On this web site you can find many pictures of the ancient battlefield area and the modern monuments. All the photos were taken by me and they are of amateur quality. But I think they adequately depict all of the above points. ...
http://www.battle-of-thermopylae.eu/
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- Herodotus Artemisia at Salamis
Thus in the first place she saved her life by the action, and was enabled to get clear off from the battle; while further, it fell out that in the very act of doing the king an injury she raised herself to a greater height than ever in his esteem. Fo ...
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/480artemisia.html
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- The Battle of Salamis
The Battle of Salamis was one of the most important battles in history. The victory by the Greeks under Themistocles insured that Xerxes would be forced to retreat to Persia. The battle would lay the foundation for an Athenian Empire that would come ...
http://www.indepthinfo.com/salamis/
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- Themistocles
According to the Ath. Pol. it would seem that Themistocles was archGn in 48382 at the time when this naval programme began. Dionysius of Halicarnassus places his archonship in 49392, in favour of which are several considerations. In 487 the omce lost ...
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/eb11-themstocles.html
| | - The Persians
The electronic text version of this translation comes from the Eris Project at Virginia Tech, which has made it available for public use. The hypertext version presented here has been designed for students of Ancient History at the University of Calg ...
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/aescpers.html
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- Aeschylus The Persians
Euripides depiction of the murder of Aegisthus is intended to suggest the distinctive image of the boutupos rising on tiptoe to administer the deathblow at the Bouphonia, with Aegisthus assuming the role of the ox whose fate is sealed when it approac ...
http://homepage.usask.ca/~jrp638/DeptTransls/Persians.html
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