After the disastrous defeat of his fleet at Salamis, Xerxes withdrew with the bulk of his army from Greece, leaving his general and son-in-law Mardonius, with 300,000, to subjugate Greece. The latter retreated to the Boeotian plain and wintered there. The Greeks also moved there having gathered a st
Xerxes, after his magnificent victory at Thermopylae, gathered his army and moved south. His goal was the conquest of Athens, in the first phase and the Peloponnese afterwards. Athens was the second most powerful Greek city, and the Persian king rightly believed that its subjugation would greatly we
I dont know if you have noticed a detail that is repeated in most classical sculptures -and I dont mean that it is small, which is also a constant, or the statues where Priapus -, but in his hands and feet, specifically his nails and how perfectly trimmed they are. For those who have been left with
Here we begin a new category with the enigmas of History. Enigma:«Why didnt Hannibal take Rome after the victory at Cannae? » In the year 216 B.C. Hannibal faces at Cannae eight Roman legions, cavalry and auxiliary troops (composed of allies), in total more than 80,000 men. On the other hand, Hann