The Second Persian War is a very…

481 BCE

The Second Persian War is a very different proposition from the first.

Xerxes in 481 BCE uses a bridge of boats to cross the Hellespont at Abydos with a huge fleet and an army of over one hundred thousand troops. (Herodotus estimates the Persian army to number in the millions, but modern scholars tend to doubt his figures, replacing them with far lower ones.)

The unprecedented size of Xerxes' forces makes their progress quite slow, giving the Greeks plenty of time to prepare their defense.

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Abydos Canakkale Turkey View →

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Xerxes I View →

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Athens, City-State of View → Thebes, City-State of View → Argos, City-State of View → Greece, classical View → Persian people View → Sparta, Kingdom of View → Corinth, City-State of View → Peloponnesian League (Spartan Alliance) View → Boeotian League View → Achaemenid, or First Persian, Empire View →

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Younger Subboreal Period View → Iron Age, Near and Middle East View → Iron Age Cold Epoch View → Classical antiquity View → Greco-Persian Wars, Early View →

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