Ancient Wars

The Greek coalition opposing the Persian attempt to impose peace on them selected the Salamis strait as the place to defeat the Persian fleet after earlier failing at Artemesion. The Persians wished to reliminate the Greek fleet. So it was a mutually satisfctoy arrangement, and the battle was started.

To repel a Persian attemp to re-install Athens' banished ex-tyrant Hippias to rule them again and keep them under control, after an Athenian force had been involved in burning down the Persian provincial capital Sardis in Asia Minor.

This war was faught by the Greeks against the Persian Army because they wanted to conquer Athens and all of Greece. The war a Marathon was under the leadership of General Miltiades, who resisted and won the battle over the Persians. It is 26 miles from Marathon to Athens and thus the beginnings of the real marathons we enjoy today created by the one man who reached Athens stating that the Persian fllet was coming and they fought them back into the sea.

Panayiotis Koukoumelis

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Not significantly. They lost 300 hopkites and 2,000 light infantry. However it was part of a continuing cumulative loss of manpower over a century which finally reduced Sparta to a second rate power.

There was a narrow pass leading to southern Greece. By blocking it, they hoped to force a sea battle in the adjacent strait and defeat the Persian fleet and so remove the sea threat to their cities.

the sea battle failed, and the blocking force vacated the pass.

There was no slaughter - after three days blocking the Persian advance at the pass at Thermopylai, the Greek force was withdrawn.

The Spartan and Thespian contingents stayed behind to cover the withdrawal and died in the process.

This was a noble sacrifice by the two contingents, but was not specifically a reflection of Greek values - the Persians also showed great courage in the course of the battle.

Courage in battle (and cowardice) are universal traits.

Aeschylus.

To encourage the Persian fleet to enter the narrow straits around the island of Psyttali and catch them strung out in line ahead, vulnerable to a concentrated attack from the flanks unready for a formal battle.

With victory at Alesia, Caesar conquered Gaul. Under the Romans, Gaul became latinised. This is the origin of France being a Latina country and the French speaking a romance language (a language derived from Latin. The only remnants of Celtic culture is in Brittany, and that comes from Celts who migrated form Cornwall, not from descendants of the Gauls.

A very big arm or a very large rubber band or maybe a sling could be the answer

This is some strange combination of names and confusion of events which has no relationship to reality. Can you turn this into a meaningful question if you want an answer.

In the strait between the island of Salamis and Athens.

Yes.

The batte of Marathon was between the Athenian people or Athens and the greatest empire of that time Persia.

It was a sea battle. The Greek fleet assembled at the island of Salamis in preparation to fighting the Persian fleet.

The Persians were defeated and went home.

However the war went on for another thirty years.

August 7 or September 8-10 480 BC .

He persuaded the Persians to send a third of the fleet to cover the back entrance to the strait and so miss the battle.

He put in the Persian mind the idea that part of the Greek fleet would defect to the Persians as had happened in Ionia nearly twenty years earlier.

He induced the Persian fleet to sit all night at their oars so that they were tired for the battle the following day.

He induced the Persian fleet to attack into the strait where they had to split into two colums to get around an island.

The Greeks then descended on this badly reduced, split ad disorganised enemy.

A common view is that a runner called Pheidippedes ran the 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to tell of the Athenian victory over the Persians, however he was already dead - he had been sent to Sparta to summon the Spartan army to the battle - a much longer run and he came back hallucinating and died.

After the Spartans defeated the Persian infantry at Marathon, they realised that the Persian cavalry had embarked on their ships and was being rowed around to attack Athens - traitors would open the city gates, and the cavalry would gallop up and take the city with the Athenian army still at Marathon. The 9,000 Athenian infantry set out back, running the 26 miles wearing sandals and carrying their weapons and armour, and got back just in time to form up in front of the city. The Persians, frustrated, went home.

Today's race commemorats this mass run. Today's athletes get it pretty easy without the weaponry and sandals.

The land battle of Plataia 479 BCE was part of the Persian War 499-449 BCE.

The Persian invasion force, having been defeated at sea the previous year at Salamis, was withdraw. Land and sea battles continued on for the next thirty years, with decisive battles at Eurymedon 466 BCE and Cyprus 450 BCE, after which the Persians gave up and agreed to peace.

The fleets of the invading Persians fought it out with the combined fleet of the defending southern Greek city-states.

A small force from Greek city-states led by Spartan King Leonidas fought the Persians .

about 20,000 Persians and 4000 Greeks.

Rome.

At its narrowest, 100 metres.