The Persian Empire on one side, and the southern Greek city-states on the other.
The persian wars that took place near marshes were the Thermopylae and Marathon wars.
The Battle of Thermopylae took place in the second of the two Persian Wars, also known more recently as the Greco-Persian Wars.
Artaxerxes I.
King Xerxes.
Darius the Great.
Xerxes
In the first part, Miletus. In the second part Sparta. In the third part, Athens.
King Darius I.
Darius the Great.
Darius the Great.
Herodotus.
No, its military strength enabled it to play a leading part in the earlier Persian Wars.