Episode 19: The Greeks Prepare

With Xerxes arranging the full resources of the Persian empire in an invasion against Greece, word would have filtered back to Greece of the preparations. The Greeks would not sit by idle but would now attempt to take measures to see a halt be put to the Persian advance. This time around it wouldn’t just be Athens and Plataeans meeting the Persians on the field of battle. In the years between Marathon and Xerxes invasion, politics had been continuing in Athens. The new public figure to have r...