Persia and the Greeks, 550-490 B.C. : Persia and the Greeks, 550-490 B.C. Introduction Empires of the Ancient Near East Lydia Cyrus and the Rise of Persia, 559-530 B.C. Cambyses and Darius, 530-521 B.C. Persia’s Northwest Frontier and the Ionian Revolt, 521-494 B.C. The Battle of Marathon


Persia and the Greeks, 550-490 B.C. : Persia and the Greeks, 550-490 B.C. introduction Empires of the Ancient Near East Lydia Cyrus and the Rise of Persia, 559-530 B.C. Cambyses and Darius, 530-521 B.C. Persia’s Northwest Frontier and the Ionian Revolt, 521-494 B.C. The Battle of Marathon


Persia and the Greeks, 550-490 B.C. : Persia and the Greeks, 550-490 B.C. introduction Empires of the Ancient Near East Assyria Carthage Medes Lydia Cyrus and the Rise of Persia, 559-530 B.C. Cambyses and Darius, 530-521 B.C. Persia’s Northwest Frontier and the Ionian Revolt, 521-494 B.C. The Battle of Marathon


Slide4: Phoenicia Carthage


Slide5: Assyria Medes


Slide6: Assyrian soldiers flay skin alive refugees from Lachish, 701 B.C. (British Museum)


Persia and the Greeks, 550-490 B.C. : Persia and the Greeks, 550-490 B.C. introduction Empires of the Ancient Near East Lydia Phrygia Cyrus and the Rise of Persia, 559-530 B.C. Cambyses and Darius, 530-521 B.C. Persia’s Northwest Frontier and the Ionian Revolt, 521-494 B.C. The Battle of Marathon


Slide8: Phrygia


Persia and the Greeks, 550-490 B.C. (Morris and Powell Chapter 11, pages 221-247): Persia and the Greeks, 550-490 B.C. (Morris and Powell Chapter 11, pages 221-247) introduction Empires of the Ancient Near East Lydia Gyges Croesus Cyrus and the Rise of Persia, 559-530 B.C. Cambyses and Darius, 530-521 B.C. Persia’s Northwest Frontier and the Ionian Revolt, 521-494 B.C. The Battle of Marathon


Slide10: William Etty, “Candaules, King of Lydia, Shows his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed,” 1830 Herodotus 1.8-14 (680’s B.C.)


Slide11: Ionia Lydia


Persia and the Greeks, 550-490 B.C. (Morris and Powell Chapter 11, pages 221-247): Persia and the Greeks, 550-490 B.C. (Morris and Powell Chapter 11, pages 221-247) introduction Empires of the Ancient Near East Lydia Cyrus and the Rise of Persia, 559-530 B.C. Cambyses and Darius, 530-521 B.C. Persia’s Northwest Frontier and the Ionian Revolt, 521-494 B.C. The Battle of Marathon


Slide13: Persia Media


Slide14: Gerard van Honthorst, Croesus and Solon (Kunsthalle museum, Hamburg)


Slide15: Croesus on the pyre (Athenian red-figure, c.490 B.C.)


Persia and the Greeks, 550-490 B.C. (Morris and Powell Chapter 11, pages 221-247): Persia and the Greeks, 550-490 B.C. (Morris and Powell Chapter 11, pages 221-247) introduction Empires of the Ancient Near East Lydia Cyrus and the Rise of Persia, 559-530 B.C. Cambyses and Darius, 530-521 B.C. Persia’s Northwest Frontier and the Ionian Revolt, 521-494 B.C. The Battle of Marathon


Slide17: Tomb of Cyrus the Great ruled Persia c. 557 –530 B.C.


Persia and the Greeks, 550-490 B.C. (Morris and Powell Chapter 11, pages 221-247): Persia and the Greeks, 550-490 B.C. (Morris and Powell Chapter 11, pages 221-247) introduction Empires of the Ancient Near East Lydia Cyrus and the Rise of Persia, 559-530 B.C. Cambyses and Darius, 530-521 B.C. hubris (υβρις) Persia’s Northwest Frontier and the Ionian Revolt, 521-494 B.C. The Battle of Marathon


Slide19: The Achaemenid Rulers of Persia


Slide20: Darius, King of Persia ruled Persia c. 522-486 B.C.


Slide21: The Behistun inscription, c. 520 B.C., records Darius’ rise to power Darius


Persia and the Greeks, 550-490 B.C. (Morris and Powell Chapter 11, pages 221-247): Persia and the Greeks, 550-490 B.C. (Morris and Powell Chapter 11, pages 221-247) introduction Empires of the Ancient Near East Lydia Cyrus and the Rise of Persia, 559-530 B.C. Cambyses and Darius, 530-521 B.C. Persia’s Northwest Frontier and the Ionian Revolt, 521-494 B.C. The Battle of Marathon


Slide23: Persia Ionia


Slide24: Miletus Sardis


Persia and the Greeks, 550-490 B.C. : Persia and the Greeks, 550-490 B.C. introduction Empires of the Ancient Near East Lydia Cyrus and the Rise of Persia, 559-530 B.C. Cambyses and Darius, 530-521 B.C. Persia’s Northwest Frontier and the Ionian Revolt, 521-494 B.C. The Battle of Marathon


Slide26: The Trireme


Slide27: The Trireme


Persia and the Greeks, 550-490 B.C. : Persia and the Greeks, 550-490 B.C. introduction Empires of the Ancient Near East Lydia Cyrus and the Rise of Persia, 559-530 B.C. Cambyses and Darius, 530-521 B.C. Persia’s Northwest Frontier and the Ionian Revolt, 521-494 B.C. The Battle of Marathon


Slide29: Marathon


Slide30: A Greek fighting a Persian Darius King of Persia Miltiades


Slide31: Soros (burial place) at Marathon Reconstructed monument


Slide32: Xerxes invades Greece


The Great War, 480-479 B.C. : The Great War, 480-479 B.C. The Battle of Thermopylae, 480 B.C. The Fall of Athens Salamis The Battle of Salamis Battles of Plataea and Mycale, 479 B.C.


Slide34: Thermopylae Athens


Slide35: Leonidas and his 300 Spartans at Thermopylae


The Great War, 480-479 B.C. : The Great War, 480-479 B.C. The Battle of Thermopylae, 480 B.C. The Fall of Athens The Battle of Salamis Artemisia, Mardonius Battles of Plataea and Mycale, 479 B.C.


Slide37: Salamis and Themistocles


Slide38: Plataea Mycale