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Did the Persians celebrate when they found the Athens city empty?
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∙ 11y ago
They simply looted it, and destroyed the statues of the gods in retribution for Athens' destruction of Persian gods when they burnt the Persian provincial capital of Sardis twenty-odd years earlier.
And the city wasn't entirely empty. A party had remained behind defending the Acropolis, but were quickly overcome.
Afternote:
After the Athenians returned to their citiy when the Persians withdreww, they didnt know what to do with te smashed statues of the gods, and buried them in the ravine nearby, waiting for the gods to let them know what to do with them. They were discovered over two thousand years leaer in 1923 CE, and confirmed that the Greeks did not have the austere statues we imagine today, but painted them in gaudy reds, blues and greens.
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