In 480 BCE, the most powerful empire on Earth came for Greece. King Xerxes of Persia brought an army so massive that ancient writers claimed it drank entire rivers dry. His father Darius had tried to conquer Greece ten years earlier and lost at the Battle of Marathon. Xerxes wasn't just invading — he was coming for revenge.
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The place
Delphi - Sanctuary of Apollo & Oracle
The Wooden Walls of Athens
The Oracle that saved Greece from the Persians
480 BCEDelphi - Sanctuary of Apollo & Oracle
Moral of the Story
“The same Oracle that ruined King Croesus saved Athens. The difference wasn't the riddle — it was who was listening.”
Characters
T
ThemistoclesT
The PythiaX
XerxesT
The Athenian AssemblyA
ApolloSource
Herodotus's Histories (Book 7, chapters 140-143), Plutarch's Life of Themistocles