Introduction

The location of this week's episode is in the far south west corner of the modern country of bulgaria, where the borders of three countries meet. This area was on the fringes of the ancient kingdom of macedon that emerged in the early first millennium b c e. To the east was the area referred to historically as thrace, and the very important land route to the hellespont separating europe from asia. During the sixth century b c e, those as a lands would come under the rule of the achimini persians who became very interested in invading the balkan peninsula,. The athenians and their greek allies resisted the persians, and