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The 37 pages that link to Greco-Persian Wars, each with the reason it gives.

• Delian LeagueNarrower topic: The Persian threat supplied the reason for founding the league after the invasion of Greece.

• Battle of SalamisNarrower topic: The battle formed a turning point in this wider conflict.

• Athenian EmpireNarrower topic: The Persian threat prompted Greek communities to form the alliance Athens later dominated.

• Xerxes INarrower topic: Xerxes’ invasion was the largest Persian campaign within this longer conflict.

• Battle of MarathonNarrower topic: Marathon was an early battle in the wider Greco-Persian Wars.

• Battle of GaugamelaNarrower topic: The earlier wars supplied the grievance used to justify Alexander’s invasion of Persia.

• Ionian RevoltNarrower topic: The revolt helped trigger the Persian invasions that began the wider conflict.

• Battle of PlataeaNarrower topic: Plataea was a major Greek victory in this wider series of conflicts.

• PhidiasNarrower topic: The wars’ destruction of Athenian sanctuaries preceded the rebuilding that shaped Phidias’s major commissions.

• AristidesNarrower topic: Aristides’s military service and postwar reputation emerged from this wider conflict.

• Battle of MycaleNarrower topic: Mycale was one of the final major Greek victories in this wider conflict.

• IoniaNarrower topic: The Ionian Revolt helped trigger the wars that reshaped relations between Persia and Greece.

• Battle of ThermopylaeNarrower topic: Thermopylae was one episode in the invasion of Greece in 480 BCE.

• Second Persian invasion of GreeceNarrower topic: The invasion was the largest Persian campaign within this wider conflict.

• Athenian navyNarrower topic: The Persian threat accelerated Athens’s naval expansion and gave the fleet its first defining campaign.

• The PersiansNarrower topic: The play revisits the invasion and defeat that shaped its recent historical setting.

• HistoriesNarrower topic: These wars provide the narrative’s central historical arc.

• Artemisia I of CariaNarrower topic: Artemisia’s military service took place during Xerxes’ invasion of Greece.

• Athena PromachosNarrower topic: The statue commemorated Athenian identity shaped by resistance to Persia.

• Battle of ArtemisiumNarrower topic: Artemisium was one engagement in the wars’ second Persian invasion of Greece.

• Leonidas INarrower topic: Leonidas’s defense was one episode in this larger conflict.

• First Persian invasion of GreeceNarrower topic: The invasion opened the wars’ direct Persian campaigns against mainland Greece.

• Salamis IslandNarrower topic: Salamis became a defining episode in the wars and their later memory.