Person
This Persian King Had A Bone To Pick With Athens, especially after Marathon.
Who is Darius?
This place was in revolt and temporarily delayed Xerxes' plans to invade Greece while he quelled the rebellion here.
What is Egypt?
This is what King Darius' sons argued about.
Who would succeed Darius as King of Persia?
This "person" convinced Xerxes, in a very unique way, to go ahead with the plans to invade Greece or face crushing defeat.
Who is the phantom?
Xerxes requires Artabanus to do this in order to see if the phantom was real.
Sleep in Xerxes' bed.
The Persian King who had lost against the Scythians, a fact brought up by Artabanus to try to dissuade Xerxes from attacking Greece.
Who was Darius?
What was Thessaly?
That elite force of the Persians which gave the impression that they never died.
Who were the immortals?
This occurred during the march of the Persians into Europe and they took it as a good sign.
What was the solar eclipse?
That the Greeks lacked harbors big enough to protect the Persian fleet, and that the Persian army required extensive recourses to keep it fed, etc.
What were two disadvantages the Persians faced because of their large size, as they headed into Greece?
This person told the Athenians that they should rely on "the wooden wall" which would not fail them.
Who was the Delphic oracle?
Demaratus was the ex-king of this country and was helping Xerxes.
What was Sparta?
This is the virtue the Greeks use to keep "poverty and despotism at bay".
What is valor?
What was a hare?
This statement refers to what threat by the Persians: "This is pleasant news that the stranger from Trachis brings us: if the Persians hide the sun, we shall have our battle in the shade."
This person completely undermined the Greeks at Thermopylae by notifying the Persians of a secret pass leading behind Thermopylae.
Who was Ephialtes?
What is the Hellespont?
Persia used both these arms of its military to invade Greece.
What are the army and navy?
The Delphians received the advice from the oracle of Apollo to worship this, and indeed, "this" destroyed a large number of Persian ships.
What was the wind?
The Battle of Thermopylae took place in 480 BC, which was this many years after the Battle of Marathon.
The Persians and Greeks fought over this person's body, with the Persians eventually getting it and beheading it.
Who was Leonidas?
With only 300 men, the soldiers from this Greek country held off the Persians at the pass of Thermopylae for three days.
What is Sparta?
Herodotus attributes the Greek victory in the Persian wars to this particular Greek country.
What is Athens?
This was shocking to the Persian scout who saw the Spartans doing this as they prepared for battle.
What was arranging their hair?
As part of the Persian contingent, these people brought camels to the invasion.
Who were the Arabians?