A look at Athens and the First Democracy at the start of the Greco-Persian war.
Sparta and Greece; the origins of the war; the Persian invasion of Greece at Marathon and the battle
Leonidas and his 300 Spartans vs. Xerxes and his 250,000 Persians- the battle is joined at Thermopylae.
The war continues and is concluded in the Peace of Callias, aka the Peace of Kimon.