Battle of Artemisium — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Artemisium partof=the Persian Wars result=unknowable caption= date=August 11 480 BC place=Artemisium, Euboea result=Persian victory. [ Encyclopaedia Britannica , Artemisium, Battle of ]… … Wikipedia
Artemisium — is a cape north of Euboea, Greece. The legendary hollow cast bronze statue of a debatable Zeus or Poseidon was found off this cape in a sunken ship.ee also* Temple of Artemis * Battle of Artemisium … Wikipedia
Battle of Salamis — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Salamis partof=the Persian Wars caption=Map of the battle battle name=Battle of Salamis date=September, 480 BC place=Off Salamis Island result=Decisive Greek victory. territory=Persia fails to conquer… … Wikipedia
Battle of Thermopylae — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Thermopylae partof=the Greco Persian Wars caption=The site of the battle today. date=August 480 BC cite journal|title=Herodotus and the Dating of the Battle of Thermopylae|journal=The Classical… … Wikipedia
Battle of Marathon — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Marathon partof=the Greco Persian Wars caption=The plain of Marathon today date=September 490 BC place=Marathon, Greece result=Athenian victory territory=Persians fail to conquer Attica… … Wikipedia
Bataille d'Artemisium — Bataille de l Artémision Bataille de l Artémision Lieux de la bataille des Thermopyles et de l Artémi … Wikipédia en Français
Themistocles — /theuh mis teuh kleez /, n. 527? 460? B.C., Athenian statesman. * * * born с 524 died с 460 BC Athenian politician and naval strategist. As archon (493) he built defensible harbours at Piraeus. In 483 he persuaded the assembly to increase the… … Universalium
Greco–Persian Wars — For other Persian wars, see Roman Persian Wars, Arab Persian Wars, Persian Gulf Wars, and Military history of Iran. ] Some place the upper limit at 250,000 total land forces. Others place even these numbers as too high.The size of the Persian… … Wikipedia
ancient Greek civilization — ▪ historical region, Eurasia Introduction the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific… … Universalium
Comparison of Greek naval and land tactics in the 5th century BC — The Greek navy functioned nothing like the American. Several similarities existed between them, proving that the money instead of the love flowed naturally between the two forms of fighting. Their hatred on land easily translated onto the milk… … Wikipedia