To prepare ourselves for their role in the coming wars between Persian the Greek city states, I'm explaining the history and politics of Archaic Athens, from their first adoption of oligarchy rather than monarchy, down through the adoption of democracy, the Peisistratid tyrants, and the final restoration of democracy by Cleisthenes. At the end of that long process, the Athenians and their Eretrian allies joined forces with the Ionian Greek cities of Anatolia in their revolt against the Persian Empire. In 498 BCE, the Greek army set out from Ephesus in a lightning raid to attack, and ultimately destroy, the Lydian capital at Sardis.
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Ancient Persia: A Concise History of the Achaemenid Empire by Matt Waters
68: The Other Gods That Are
67: The Empire of Artaxerxes
66: The Syrian Civil War
65: The Peace of Callias
64: Fight to the End
63: The Little Pharaoh That Could(n't)
62: Death In Quick Succession
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61: Blood on the Eurymedon
60: Given Against The Demons
59: Holy War
58: Persia's First Family
57: Xerxes at Home
56: Domestic Affairs
55: Still Loud on the Western Front
54: Two By "Sea"
53: One By Land
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52: The Adventure Continues
51: Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
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