![]() The population of Athens had already soughted refuge in Athens, Aegina and Troezen thanks to the navy, that withdrew from the Battle of Artemisia. Xerxes entered the Greece through the Thermopylae. The Greeks managed to keep the Persians, but after the Leonidas told he had lost, the Greeks have retreated to the south. There battle was led with changing fortune. The Greek navy led by Eurybiades opposed the Persian at northern point of Euboea Artemis. The heroes of Thermopylae were sacrificed for the other, because they allowed for Athenians to evacuate and divisioned the military. Greeks had withdrawn while the Spartans stayed and died heroically (Thermopylae epitaph: Oh stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, trusting their words). Greeks have long resisted superior Persians and held them as long as they were not surrounded by the Persians from the back. The army had to go through the gorge of Thermopylae, where the Persians met squad of Peloponnesians, led by Spartan King Leonidas. In June 480 BC Persian army and navy started from the Thessaloniki Gulf through Thessaly to the south. Thermopylae epitaph Battle of Thermopylae Spartans and Athenians took over leadership of the united Greeks. All Boeotian cities except Plataea and all Thessals were with the Persians. 481 BC representatives of 31 of the city had met at the Isthmus of Corinth and they decided to join together and to defend Greece. In addition to the Athenians, the other Greeks were preparing to attack the Persians. Aristides was by ostracism sent into exile. The winner was Themistocles who had been supported by Attic sailors, merchants and businessmen who were for more advanced general progress in the navy. Themistocles was a strategist at Marathon, and advocated for the creation of the Navy, while the leader of the landowners Aristides was for equipment of heavy infantry. ![]() The main word in considering the type of defense had Themistocles and Aristides. Athenians know that the Persians were preparing for a new march and had to prepare defense, but did not know how. ![]() After a Marathon battle in Athens, for a few years a political struggles between Miltiades, Xanthippus, Aristides and Themistocles were led. ![]()
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