Senin, 13 Maret 2017

What We Learned from Marathon, 490 BC

In the summer of 490 fleet of 600 trireme vessels, sent by King Darius I and commanded by BC a Persian his experienced Median admiral Datis, set out from Ionia with an army of 25,000 men—light infantry, cavalry and archers—bound for the Greek mainland. The objective was to subdue Athens and install an allied regime …

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