The surprise defeat of the mighty Persian Empire in 490 B.C. began the Golden Age of Athens and the Greco-Persian wars. A well-armed Greek hoplite (right) slays a Persian soldier in a detail from ...

The muscled, taciturn Greeks—this time fighting on sea—carry on flexing their freedom-loving biceps, hacking and slashing their way through faceless mobs of easterners. The Persians remain the ...

Yiannis Stravolaimos, the Greek director behind Nenikikamen ("We Have Won"), is spearheading a pioneering cinematic endeavor.

The Persians, the ancient inhabitants of what is ... In the fifth century B.C. the Greek historian Herodotus described them as being divided into several different tribes, the most powerful ...

Thalassa! Thalassa!, the legendary cry of excitement uttered by Greek mercenaries when they saw the sea, which could put an end to their painful retreat by Persian land and return them safely to their ...

Between 430 B.C. and 427 B.C., a group of Persian sympathizers from the nearby city of Colophon had occupied part of Notion with the help of Greek and "barbarian" mercenaries. In 427 B.C., an ...

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 ...

Considered the world's oldest existing drama in theater history, The Persians is unique among ancient Greek tragedies in that it dramatizes an event that was contemporary to Ancient Greece rather ...