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 ...

July 20, 2004 at 5:00 pm PDT. the battle of salamis: the naval encounter that saved greece--and western civilization. By Barry Strauss (Simon & Schuster, 294 pages, $25) ...

In Athens, late in the summer of 480 B.C., an invading Persian army burned the wooden temple that crowned the Acropolis — where now stands the Parthenon, its successor temple. Fortunately, th… ...

Essay; For Greece, the Battle of Salamis Never Ended On the 2,500th anniversary of a historic Athenian victory, rising tensions with Turkey remind Greece of its role as Europe’s gatekeeper ...

In 480 B.C., a powerful Persian armada attacked the Greek navy at Salamis, an island off Athens. In his book The Battle of Salamis, historian Barry Strauss makes a case that the Greeks' surprising ...

The Battle of Salamis After the stunning victory at Salamis, Themistocles received a wreath of olive leaves in acknowledgement of his brilliance. A vote to decide who should receive the award for ...

The Battle of Salamis — 2,495 years ago this month — was not the end of the war, but its result was decisive. It was the culmination of Themistocles’ strategic vision and resulted in the ...

The Battle of Salamis. The Greeks were significantly outnumbered by the Persian Army, but they fought ferociously. Xerxes brought a massive fleet, thought to have been between 600 and 1200 ships, ...

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 ...

Aeschylus' tragedy The Persians is the first play based not on myth, but on a historical fact: the defeat of the Persian army at the Battle of Salamis. The National Theatre of Greece is performing ...