S02E15: The 300 Spartans, Thermopylae, and Xerxes I - a podcast by Brady J. Crytzer

More than a decade after the victory at Marathon, Greece
found itself under the threat of a new menace. Commanded by the young new
Emperor Xerxes I, the Persian Army returned to Europe with over 200,000 men in
what was the largest invasion force the world had ever seen. While diplomacy
was committed by brute force and sheer numbers, the powerful Greek city-states
of Athens and Sparta joined in alliance to confront their new enemy and change
Western history forever. On this episode we discuss the Second Invasion of
Greece, the 300 Spartans, the Battle of Thermopylae, and the end of the
Greco-Persian Wars.

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