They got as far south as Athens which they captured and occupied twice.
Xerxes.
The Persian army directed by their king Xerxes I.
Darius
Xerxes the Great was king of the Persian Empire.
Xerxes
King Xerxes.
Xerxes was a son of the ruler Darius the First. He tried to conquer Greece again. In 480 BC, the Persian Army set out for Greece. They were also joined by the Persian Navy. I think they lost the war.
Sparta and Athens, along with other Greek city-states, stopped King Xerxes' march into Greece at the Battle of Salamis in 480 BCE. This naval battle occurred in the straits between the island of Salamis and the Athenian coast, where the Greek fleet decisively defeated the Persian navy. Prior to this, the Persian advance was also halted at the Battle of Thermopylae, where a small Greek force, including Spartans led by King Leonidas, made a valiant stand against Xerxes' much larger army.
Xerxes of Persia's religious affiliation was Zoroastrianism.
Xerxes vowed revenge & planned to invade Greece. He became the new Persian monarch in 486 B.C., after Persian King Darius died. He had an army of 18,000 troops, thousands of warships & supply vessels.
Under Xerxes I the Persian army captured Athens following the battle of Thermopylae. The Persian king to conquer Athens , was the famous Persian king called Cyrus.
Themistocles set a trap for the Persian navy at Salamis. He didn't set any trap for the Persian army other than when the Persian fleet was defeated and had to withdraw to Asia, the Persian cargo fleet could no longer supply the army, and half of it had to be sent home.