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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 the Great
Darius I
king of Persia
Bas-relief detail of Xerxes I wearing a robe and crown, holding a flower, from the north courtyard of the treasury at Persepolis, now in the Archaeological Museum in Tehran.
Xerxes I
king of Persia
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Cambyses II
king of Persia
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Pausanias
Greek military officer
Shāpūr II, gold coin, 4th century; in the British Museum, London.
Shāpūr II
king of Persia
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Artaxerxes II
king of Persia
Alexander and Darius
Darius III
king of Persia
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Megabyzus
Achaemenian general
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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
Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucid ruler
Aristides The Just
Aristides The Just
Greek statesman
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Leotychides
king of Sparta
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Conon
Greek admiral
Jacques-Louis David: Leonidas at Thermopylae
Leonidas
king of Sparta
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Artemisia I
queen of Halicarnassus