The History of Herodotus

1880

Shoults Eb 1880 H

London: John Murray

During the Graeco-Persian War in the 5th century BC, King Xerxes (520-465 BC) invaded Greece in 481 BC with hundreds of thousands of infantry soldiers and an enormous naval fleet. The Persians ultimately lost. One of the most famous battles during the subsequent war was between Xerxes’s army and the Greeks at Thermopylae in 480 BC. Parts of this battle were fictionalised in the movie 300 (2007). King Xerxes was played by Brazilian actor Rodrigo Santora, with the leader of the 300 Spartan warriors, King Leonidas, played by Gerard Butler.