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... Persians that Xerxes brought into Greece that he is most at fault . According to him Xerxes was accompanied by a ... Persian was a vast Empire ; it contained possibly fifty millions of subjects ; requisitions for the expedition had ...
... Persians that Xerxes brought into Greece that he is most at fault . According to him Xerxes was accompanied by a ... Persian was a vast Empire ; it contained possibly fifty millions of subjects ; requisitions for the expedition had ...
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... Persians and Thebans the night before the battle of Plataea . Now after dinner while they drank one with another , the Persian that sat with him asked Thersandrus in the Greek tongue of what country he was ; and Thersandrus answered ...
... Persians and Thebans the night before the battle of Plataea . Now after dinner while they drank one with another , the Persian that sat with him asked Thersandrus in the Greek tongue of what country he was ; and Thersandrus answered ...
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... Persian and Peloponnesian Wars . For us the Persian Wars freed Greece from barbarism . For him the battle of Marathon was little more than a date . It has been suggested that the chief importance of the Peloponnesian War is that it was ...
... Persian and Peloponnesian Wars . For us the Persian Wars freed Greece from barbarism . For him the battle of Marathon was little more than a date . It has been suggested that the chief importance of the Peloponnesian War is that it was ...
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