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98. Thermopylae & Salamis Episode 1

The Rest Is History

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What Are the Persians Doing While All This Is Going On?

Darius is still king merit. Darius da dies shortly after the battle of marathan. And he is succeeded by one of his many sons, a ma called xerxes. He's seen as the kind of archetype of a tyranto hubristic idiotwho fails because the greeks write the history. But he's a man of formidable capabilities. So this, he and arist s have to basically argue the torse vor this. And the argument is so bitter and so impossible to resolve that a this kind of novel political technique called ostracism has to be drawn on an ostrica, a kind of shards of pottery. The athenians will have a vote to

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