“Beyond Glory and Guts: Unveiling the Untold Secrets of the Spartan 300”
Thermopylae, Artemisium, Salamis, Plataea, and Mycale are considered the five major battles of the second Greco-Persian wars for most historians. After this, the Spartans withdrew from the rest of the war, and Athens led a newly constituted Delian League in revenge against the Persians, attacking Persian targets in the Mediterranean. The final battle of this war was in Salamis in Cyprus.
Noteworthy here is that the Delian league consolidated Athens’ power, which all set the stage for the Peloponnesian war between Athens and Sparta. That story, however, we’ll save for another day.
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