The Battle of Salamis (In Our Time)
480 BCE · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what is often called one of the most significant battles in history. In 480BC in the Saronic Gulf near Athens, between the mainland and the island of Salamis, a fleet of Greek allies decisively defeated a larger Persian-led fleet. This halted the further Persian conquest of Greece and, at Plataea and Mycale the next year, furt
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Around 480 BCE
- Gautama Buddha (563 BCE)
- Mahabharata (400 BCE)
- Ramayana (500 BCE)
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Confucius (551 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)