Christos Loulis as King Xerxes in The Persians. Greek actress Lydia Koniordou directs and stars in The Persians. You could say that The Persians, which was written in 472 BC, was the first docudrama.
The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from Northern India to ...
With his plan under threat, Themistocles was forced to take the initiative. By night he sent a messenger to the Persian king, Xerxes, informing him that the Greeks intended to flee. Unless he acted ...
In just one minute, we cover Alexander the Great’s incredible conquests, from Greece to Egypt, Persia, and into India. His ...
One bright spring day in 480 B.C., the Persian King Xerxes was reviewing his vast land and sea forces, mustered at the Dardanelles strait for his great invasion of Greece. When he saw the whole ...
Spartan men were known for their long, flowing hair, which became linked to the ancient Greek warriors in antiquity.
The Greek-flagged oil tanker Prudent Warrior, background, is seen as it sails past Istanbul, Turkey, April 19, 2019. Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized two Greek oil tankers on Friday, May ...