PERSIA’S WRATH - PART II

by - February 11, 2020


485 B.C.E. Ú PERSIA’S WRATH - PART II


Darius the Great left the task of punishing the Athenians for their interference in the Ionian Revolt and for the burning of the city of Sardis to his Son. Emperor Xerxes prepared his expedition with 10,000 of his elite warriors (The Immortals) along with a force of around 50,000 combatants. Many smaller Greek states, moreover, also took the side of the Persians. After the Persian victory at the Battle of Thermopylae, Athens was abandoned and King Xerxes decided to burn some of the Government Headquarters and Palaces to the ground as revenge and warning for all the previous Greek terrorist attacks on Persian holdings and the civilian population. Xerxes later rebuilt some of the damaged civilian areas of the city and sent a message to the Athenian citizens and told them that they could return to their homes, which they did. Soon after Xerxes left Greece for good. That shows how humane the Persian empire was and how much they respected civilians, despite the fact that the Athenians wiped out the entire Persian city of Sardis and all its civilian population. What Persia did not achieve through war, it obtained through diplomacy.



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