Persia's Greek campaigns : kingship, war, and spectacle on the Achaemenid frontier /

The wars between the Achaemenid Persian kings & the Greek city-states (c. 499-449 BCE), especially Xerxes' invasion of Greece (480-479 BCE), are often remembered as foundational events in Greek history, & therefore, we often hear about them through Greek accounts. While the Persians lef...

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