Greco-Persian Wars 498 BC–448 BC

Ancient Greece, Classical Athens, Sparta, Thespiae, Thebes, Greece, Cyprus, Delian League ⚔ Achaemenid Empire

Key battles

• Siege of Naxos (498 BC)
• Battle of Lade (493 BC)
• Battle of Marathon (489 BC) — Miltiades, Callimachus, Callimachus vs Datis, Artaphernes, Artaphernes
• Siege of Eretria (489 BC)
• Battle of Thermopylae (479 BC) — Leonidas I of Sparta, Demophilus of Thespiae, Leontiades of Thebes vs Xerxes, Mardonius, Hydarnes
• Battle of Plataea (478 BC)
• Battle of Mycale (478 BC)

Who lived through the Greco-Persian Wars

Well-known people alive during 498 BC–448 BC:

• Confucius (550 BC–478 BC) — 5th-century BCE Chinese philosopher and politician
• Socrates (469 BC–398 BC) — 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher
• Sophocles (495 BC–405 BC) — ancient Greek playwright
• Herodotus (483 BC–424 BC) — Greek historian and geographer (c.484–c.425 BC)
• Hippocrates (459 BC–369 BC) — Greek physician (c. 460 – c. 370 BC)
• Euripides (480 BC–406 BC) — Classical Athenian playwright
• Aeschylus (524 BC–455 BC) — ancient Athenian playwright
• Democritus (460 BC–360 BC) — Greek philosopher (c. 460–c. 370 BC)
• Heraclitus (534 BC–470 BC) — Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
• Thucydides (460 BC–394 BC) — 5th-century BC Athenian historian and general
• Pericles (493 BC–428 BC) — Athenian statesman, orator and general (c. 495 – 429 BC)
• Parmenides (514 BC–469 BC) — late 6th/early 5th century BC Greek pre-Socratic philosopher
• Anaxagoras (499 BC–427 BC) — 5th-century BC Greek philosopher
• Darius I (549 BC–485 BC) — The fourth and greatest Achaemenid emperor (522–486 BC)
• Empedocles (493 BC–433 BC) — 5th century BC Greek philosopher
• Protagoras (489 BC–419 BC) — Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (c.490–c.420 BC)
• Pindar (516 BC–436 BC) — 5th-century BC Greek lyric poet
• Xenophanes (569 BC–477 BC) — Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher (c.570–c.478 BC)
• Zeno of Elea (489 BC–424 BC) — Greek philosopher (c. 495 – c. 430 BC)
• Xerxes I (518 BC–464 BC) — The fifth Achaemenid emperor (486–465 BC)
• Gorgias (484 BC–374 BC) — Greek presocratic philosopher and sophist (483–375 BC)
• Anacreon (569 BC–484 BC) — ancient Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and hymns
• Themistocles (523 BC–458 BC) — Athenian politician and general (c. 524–459 BC)
• Panini (519 BC–459 BC) — ancient philologist who standardized classical Sanskrit through grammatical rules
• Phidias (499 BC–429 BC) — Greek sculptor, painter and architect (c.480–430 BC)

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