The Aegean Is a Greek Lake

In 479, the Persians have lost a quarter of a million men perhaps and they're humiliated. And so what is happening now is there's something called the Delian League will be formed to be a Pan-Hellenic alliance. So that 50 year period becomes symbolic of a brave, free people who defeated an imperialistic totalitarian attacker. The Greeks were fighting for their freedom,. They were united and they were fighting a foreign aggressor from a different culture.