His play, THE PERSIANS, was produced shortly after the Battle of Salamis. That being said, I had some initial doubts about plunging into this performance. HELLAS is a five and a half hour commitment.

Greg Jenner is joined by historian Prof Michael Scott and comedian Shappi Khorsandi in 480 BCE for one of history’s most notorious naval battles - The Battle of Salamis.

The Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive battles of world history, in which the small city-states of ancient Greece joined forces to take on the mighty Persian Empire. After the defeat and ...

In fact, one of the aforementioned 10th-century texts also provides a seemingly reliable description of the location of the famous battle itself, allowing the archaeologists to tentatively place ...

Forecasting the weather is not just a modern phenomenon. More than 2,500 years ago, when the Persian Empire was on course to overrun ancient Greece, Athenian commander Themistocles put his knowledge ...

The Port of Piraeus by John Pentland Mahaffy, London, The Religious Tract Society, 1890 Public Domain The story of the Piraeus Port is connected to one of the most glorious chapters in Greece ’s rich ...

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War VI–1 The first conflict with the Carthaginians occurred in 480 B.C., known today as the First Battle of Himera, and it reportedly happened on the same day ...

The Battle of Tarawa was fought for 76 hours between Nov. 20 and 23, 1943. What follows is a selection of photographs from the fighting, as captured by American photographers.

The Battle of Salamis happened during the earlier half of the Greco-Persian Wars, a string of conflicts between ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid, or Persian, Empire that historians say ...