Xerxes' Invasion of Greece

advance Aeschylus Aigina Anopaia Aphetai Aristeides arrival Artabazos Artemision Asopos Athenians Athens attack Attica battle Beloch Boiotia Busolt campaign coast contingents Damasta Darius defend Delbrück Delphi Diod Diodoros dotus enemy Ephoros Erythrai Euboia explain fighting force Giannelli gorge Greece Greek army Greek fleet Grundy Grundy's Hauvette Herodotus Herodotus says hoplites Hydarnes hypothesis ii² infantry invasion Ionians Isthmus Jacoby Kithairon Kromayer land later Legrand Leonidas Leotychidas Macan Marathon Mardonios Meyer Munro Mykale narrative naval oracle pass passage Pausanias Peloponnese Peloponnesian perhaps Persai Persian army Persian cavalry Persian fleet Persian ships Phaleron Phokians plain Plataia Plutarch position Pritchett probably Psyttaleia retreat Ridge road route Salamis seems sent Skiathos Spartans squadron stades statement storm story Strabo strait suggested supposed Tarn Thebes Themistokles Therma Thermopylai Thessalians Thessaly Thuc Thucydides Trachis tradition triremes troops Ufer viii Xerxes