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Died 479 BCE • Plataea • Greece
Role In Battle of Plataea • Greco-Persian Wars
Cyrus II
Cyrus the Great
king of Persia
Darius I
Darius I
king of Persia
Xerxes I
Xerxes I
king of Persia
Cambyses II
king of Persia
Pausanias
Greek military officer
Shāpūr II, gold coin, 4th century; in the British Museum, London.
Shāpūr II
king of Persia
Artaxerxes II
king of Persia
Darius III
king of Persia
Megabyzus
Achaemenian general
Tissaphernes
Persian satrap
Bahrām VI Chūbīn, coin, 6th century; in the British Museum
Bahrām VI Chūbīn
king of Iran
Agesilaus II; Pharnabazus
Pharnabazus
Persian statesman
Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.
Xenophon
Greek historian
Herodotus, detail of a Roman herm probably copied from a Greek original of the first half of the 4th century bce; in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
Herodotus
Greek historian
Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucid ruler
Aristides The Just
Aristides The Just
Greek statesman
Leotychides
king of Sparta
Conon
Greek admiral
Jacques-Louis David: Leonidas at Thermopylae
Leonidas
king of Sparta
Artemisia I
queen of Halicarnassus