The Athenian navy did not defeat the Persian navy. There were several naval battles between combined Greek city fleets which defeated Persian fleets from 480 to 449 BCE. They defeated the Persian fleets by a combination of good strategy and tactics.
The Persian leader defeated by the Greeks was Darius.
Xerxes.
The small Greek force at Thermopylae was defeated by the Persian army in 480 BCE.
At Marathon and Salamis, the Greek cities defeated the Persian forces. At Thermopylai the Persian forces defeated the Greek cities.
Persian naval forces were defeated by a Greek naval coalition under the command of the Spartan Admiral Eurybiades.
The Persian leader defeated by the Greeks was Darius.
Its called ''the Persian wars'' or the ''Greco-Persian wars''.
479 BCE at Plataia.
Xerxes.
The small Greek force at Thermopylae was defeated by the Persian army in 480 BCE.
At Marathon and Salamis, the Greek cities defeated the Persian forces. At Thermopylai the Persian forces defeated the Greek cities.
Persian naval forces were defeated by a Greek naval coalition under the command of the Spartan Admiral Eurybiades.
It was the Battle of Thermopylae in the Second Persian War. The Greeks won. Shortly after Thermopylae the Athenian Navy defeated the Persian Navy at Salamis, and in the next year the Persian Army was defeated by a combined Greek Army at Plataea.
The Battle of Marathon .
The Persian navy comprising Phoenician, Asian-Greek and Egyptian fleets.
They didn't defeat a war. They defeated the Persians in the Persian War in the eastern Mediterranean on land and sea 499-449 BCE.
Cyprus 450 BCE.