Essays on Battle of Thermopylae

Sparta, a military focused civilization, is known for its extremely harsh training, the Agoge.Today I will speak about three major things that made Sparta what it is in today’s world: Lycurgus, the Agoge, and the battle of Thermopylae. Lycurgus, shown in this picture was a…

“The Battle of Thermopyale” The author of “Histories of Herodotus” is Herodotus himself. Herodotus was to be considered the “father of history”. He was the first man to record events and how they happened. His work includes factual information along with myths and legends. The…

Herodotus’s Thermopylae: A Successful Rendering of History Here I intend to write about the success of Herodotus’s account of the battle of Thermopylae. The first step toward evaluating his success is to determine by what standard we should judge his work. Herodotus himself begins his…

The Battle of Thermopylae in Three Perspectives The Battle of Thermopylae was a famous battle fought between the invading Persians, and the defending Greek city-state alliance. This battle was recorded many historians, including Herodotus and Diodorus, and is even being continued to be written about…

The first of the wars, between Greece and the Persian Empire, was the Battle of Marathon. Some Greeks had settled at the coast of Anatolia in a region called Ionia. Around 546 B.C., the Persians conquered the area and The Ionian Greeks revolted. They asked…