Person465 BC
Xerxes I
King of Achaemenid Persia (r. 486–465 BC), son of Darius I, who invaded Greece in 480 BC and was defeated at Salamis
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Achaemenid Persia invaded Greece three times, but an alliance of city-states led by Athens and Sparta drove it back at Marathon, Salamis and Plataea.
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In 480 BC the Greek fleet led by Themistocles defeated Xerxes’ Persian fleet in the straits of Salamis.
Related works
- Book: The HistoriesBook · 430 BC · Herodotus · Ἱστορίαι
People who appear alongside
- Themistocles
Athenian statesman and general who built up the navy and defeated the Persian fleet at Salamis in 480 BC
- Darius I550 BC – 486 BC
King of Achaemenid Persia (r. 522–486 BC) who organized the empire through satrapies and the Royal Road
Themes this person appears in
- Greece and Rome2000 BC – AD 476
From the Aegean civilisation to the fall of the Western Roman Empire — the classical civilisation built by the democracy of the polis and the Roman republic and empire