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The Persians wars pt. 10

Pericles on 8. Jul, 2012 — Lang: English

The Persians wars pt. 10

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    The conclusion of the First Persian war with Greece. The thrilling conclusion was last issue. This is just tying up loose ends. Fear not dear reader, for Greek history is vast and there are many more stories to tell.

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    Once the full moon had passed, the Spartans reached Athens in 3 days with 2000 men

    Of course, they missed the battle by miles

    However they insisted at looking at the Persian dead at Marathon

    After that they commended the Athenians and marched home.

    Soon after in Athens, members of the Alcmeonid family were accused of signalling the Persians to sail to Athens

    To my knowledge the family was found innocent on all counts

    Using the fame and celebrity gained from Marathon, Miltiades procured 70 ships and troops, claiming that his endevour would enrich Athens.

    In reality, he was going to use this force to settle a feud with the city of Paros by sacking it

    However Miltiades was overcome with terror as he approached the shrine and, fleeing back over the wall, smashed his leg. The siege was broken and back in Athens Miltiades was put on trial and found guility of misleading the people. He was fined 50 talents of Gold and died in shame due to Gangrene soon after

    The city's defences proved too much for Miltiades and his troops. But during the siege Miltiades was told by a woman named Timo that the secret to victory was in the shrine of Demeter

    *SNAP*

    And so it was that at the cost of Histiaeus, Aristagoras, Callimachus and Pheidippides...

    Miletus, Macedonia, Eritria, Naxos, The Cheronese, Chios, Thasos, Samos and Countless Ionians. 192 Athenians and 6400 Persians at Marathon alone...

    ...That Greece was saved from Slavery at the hands of the Persian King Darius and his inummerable hoardes. The year is 490 BC. The Persians have just fled back across the Aegean sea from Athens.

    And we are still free.

    Tags:
    War, history, funny, 300, greeks, greece, learning, educational., educational
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  • Starter
    Pericles 16.9.2012
    Why yes Abrotons I am a free born Athenian. In fact I am the great reformer who created the Oligarchy that ulitmately transformed into a Democracy.
  • Fiddler
    Abbielewis 9.7.2012
    Lol! Love the description! :D
  • God
    abrotons 8.7.2012
    of course you can vote now
    but can you do that those voted by you do as you wanted them to?
  • God
    abrotons 8.7.2012
    In Athens only native men owning a house could vote, if I'm not wrong
    women, slaves, and immigrants from other greek cities coulldn't
    In Sparta even less people could vote
    I mean that group
  • Starter
    Pericles 8.7.2012
    What selected group of people is that and free for what?
  • God
    abrotons 8.7.2012
    the strip is good
  • God
    abrotons 8.7.2012
    do you belong to that selected group of people?
  • God
    abrotons 8.7.2012
    are you free?
  • God
    abrotons 8.7.2012
    free?

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