Directory of Persian Wars Resources

This category lists sites specifically for the wars fought between the Greek city states and the Persian Empire of the ancient time period.

Subcategories

Aeschylus - The Persians

http://homepage.usask.ca/~jrp638/DeptTransls/Persians.html
A play written in 472 B.C.E. of the earliest account of the wars as translated by Niall McCloskey and John Porter.
Herodotus - Artemisia at Salamis

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/480artemisia.asp
Selection from The History, 480 B.C.E.
Herodotus - Solon and Croesus

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/herodotus-creususandsolon.asp
A story of an encounter from The Histories.
The Battle of Thermopylae

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040205.shtml
Radio programme considers the significance of the battle with audience comments.
The Persians

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/aescpers.html
A play as written in 470 BC by Aeschylus translated by Robert Potter.
Themistocles

http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/themisto.html
Biography by Plutarch written 75 A.C.E. and translated by John Dryden.
Themistocles

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/eb11-themstocles.asp
A brief biography.

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