Thermopylae (In Our Time)
480 BCE · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Battle of Thermopylae. For the historian Herodotus, the Battle of Thermopylae was the defining clash between East and West: “The Persians fell in their scores, for the officers stood behind lashing them forward, forward all the time. Many fell into the sea and were drowned, many more were trampled to death by their comrade
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 480 BCE
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Ramayana (500 BCE)
- Gautama Buddha (563 BCE)
- Mahabharata (400 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Confucius (551 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)