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The Persian Wars
The Limits of EmpireAnd the Birth of a Greek
World View
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Assyrian Empire
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Assyria
• SennacheribDestroys Babylon in 689 BC.
• Esarhaddon (681-669)Conquers Egypt in 671 BC.
• Ashurbarnipal (669-630)Struggles to maintain the empire until he
abdicates in 630 BC.
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Media
• Deioces (728-675 BC)• Phraortes (675-653 BC)
United the Median tribesAttacked Assyria.
• Cyaxares (653-ca 645/ 617 - 585)– Overrun by the Scythians while Recovered
Media and allied with Babylon
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Babylon
• Nabopolassar (625-605)– Asserts Babylonian independence.– Defeats the Assyrians at Qablinu in 615 BC– Alliance with Media:– 612 BC: Fall of Nineveh
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Median Empire
• Cyaxares:– Attacks Lydia in 590 BC.– On 28 May 585 BC. the war ends.
• Astyages (585-550 BC)– Married Aryenis in 585 BC.– Gave Mandane to Cambyses I before 580
BC.– Deserted by his troops and defeated by his
grandson, Cyrus, in 550 BC.
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Cyrus the Great
• King of Anshan in 560 BC.• Attacked Media in 550 BC.• Defeated Croesus of Lydia in 547/6 BC.• Defeated Babylon in 539 BC.• Died in 530 BC. attacking the
Massagetae
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Cyrus’ Campaigns
560: King on Anshan550: King of Media547: Conquest of Lydia
539: Conquest of Babylon535 – 530: Expansion East
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Cambyses
• King of Babylon by 27 March, 538 BC.• Great King in Sept, 530.• Invaded Egypt in 525.• Cambyses was “not in his right mind,
but mad” (Hdt. 3.25).• Died accidentally in 522 BC.• Succeeded by Smerdis, March 522• Smerdis killed September 522 BC
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Darius I
• Two years of rebellions: consolidated power by 520 BC.
• Reorganization into 20 satrapies• Invaded Scythia via Europe in 513• Satrapy in Europe, Skudra (Thrace)• Construction of Persepolis• 507: Accepted ‘Earth and Water’ from
Athens.
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Empire of Darius I
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Persia in the Aegean ca 510
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The Ionian Revolt
• Aristagoras, Tyrant of Cyzicus and Miletus– Convinced Persians to invade Naxos– Four month siege failed in 499– Aristagoras and Histiaeus launch revolt of the
Ionians
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Ionian Revolt
• Cleomenes refused to participate• Athens contributed 20 ships
– “Perhaps it is easier to fool a crowd…” (Hdt. V.97).
– Sardis sacked, the temple of Cybele burned.– Ionian army defeated near Ephesus– Athenian aid withdrawn– Aristagoras killed in Thrace
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Persian Response
• 498• Took Byzantium, Chalcedon, the Troad,
Lamponium, Lemnos and Imbros – Defeated the Ionian army at Ephesus– Took Clazomenae and Cyme
• 497-494– Besieged Miletus and campaigned in that area
• 494 BC.– The Battle of Lade– The fall of Miletus
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Mardonius
• Son of Gobryas, – Nephew and son in law of Darius
• 492:– Replaced Otanes as Commander of the
Coast– Assembled a fleet in Cilicia– Army mustered in Sardis– Crossed the Hellespont– Subdued Macedonia
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492 Invasion
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Mardonius’ Failure
• Fleet destroyed rounding Athos• Mardonius defeated by the Brygi• Most of the army wasted away• Removed from his command in 491
– Replaced by Datis– But… he was a close friend to Xerxes.
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Datis the Mede
• 491– Made Commander of the Coast– Enslisted Hippias as guide.
• 490– Musterd in Cilicia and crossed the Aegean
via the Cyclades Islands• Rhodes - Samos - Naxos - Delos
– Captured Euboea from Carystos to Eretria
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The Marathon Invasion
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Miltiades son of Cimon
• Tyrant of the Chersonese – Subject to Darius– At the bridge over the Ister in 513– Fled the Chersonese in 496
• Marathon: Sept. 490 BC.– Miltiades elected 10th. General– Advocated a quick attack– The run under the arrows
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Marathon Satellite i
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Marathon ii
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Tomb of the Fallen
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The Marathon Run
• Plutarch– Pheidippides ran the 22 miles
• Herodotus– No mention
• Modern:– Introduced at the first Olympic Games of
the Modern Era, Athens, 1896.– 42.195 k./ 26 miles 385 yards– 1908 London Olympics
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Xerxes
• 489 -7: Darius prepares for a third invasion
• 487: Egyptian Revolt• 486: Darius dies in November.• 485
– Xerxes Recovers Egypt.
• 484-2– Canal cut across Athos– Revolt in Babylon delays preparations
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Really Big Numbers
• 481– Mustered the army in Cappadocia– Moved to Sardis by the fall.
• 480– Marched to Abydos and crossed the
Hellespont– Army counted at Doriscus (1,700,000)– Marched in 3 columns to Therma– Fleet to Artemisium, Army to Thermopylae
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Converging on Cappadocia
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Greek Response
• Allied fleet:– 271 ships– 127 Athenian– Battle of Artemisium
• Land forces:– The Tempe Pass– The Isthmus of Corinth– Thermopylae
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Leonidas
• King of Sparta 490 - 480 BC.– Delphic oracle
• The 300– Men with sons– Greek allies ordered to withdraw.– 19 – 20 August, 480 BC.– “We will fight in the shade!”– Stranger, go tell the
Lacedaemonians that here we lay, obedient to their command.
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Themistocles of Athens
• Archon in 493 BC.– Used the Laurium surplus to build a fleet– Initiated the walls around the Piraeus
• Artemisium (late August, 480)– commanded the 127 Athenian ships– Eurybiades of Sparta admiral of the fleet– Persian fleet reduced by about 1/3
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Xerxes in Athens
• Thermopylae to Attica– Xerxes marched through Trachis, Doris, then
Phocis.– At Panopea the army split:
• 4000 troops went to Delphi• The main army sacked Thespia and Plataea
• Athens– Themistocles had convinced the Athenians to move
to Salamis– Persians besieged the priests on the Acropolis– The fleet moved to Phalerum
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In the Saronic Gulf
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The Battle of Salamis
• Themistocles:– Salamis and Megara need to be held to
protect the Isthmus– Threatened to pull out the Athenian
ships– Warned Xerxes of the plan to withdraw
• The Battle:– The Persians surround the Island– The Greeks fought in the narrow
channels
• Xerxes withdraws– 300,000 left under Mardonius
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Trireme
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Salamis Satellite
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Salamis II
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Plataea• Mardonius:
– Led the Persian forces to Thebes in summer 479 BC.– Occupied Athens in July (city abandoned again)– Moved to Thebes to draw the Greeks onto the plains.
• Pausanias & Aristides– Withdrawal to Plataea– Spartans caught on the
plain.– Persians forced inside the
walls– Athenians take the walls
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Plataea
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Mycale
• Persian fleet docked at Samos in spring 479
• Greek fleet, under Leutychides, docked at Delos.– Sailed to Samos in July of 479 BC.
• Persians withdrew to fortify Mycale.• Greek fleet pursued.
– Made a beachhead.– Defeated the Persians, burned the fleet
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The Battle of Mycale