Erik Jensen - The Greco-Persian Wars: A Short History with Documents

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Inscription of Ariaramnes from Hamdan

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Inscription of Arsamnes from Hamdan

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Collections of the British Museum, London

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Collections of the Bibliothque Nationale, Paris

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Inscriptions of Darius from Bisitun Rock

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Inscriptions of Darius from Naqsh-e Rustam

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Inscriptions of Darius from Persepolis

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Inscriptions of Darius from Susa

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Fragment

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Jacoby, Fragmente der griechischen Historiker

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Persepolis Fortification Texts (Cameron collated)

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Inscriptiones Graecae

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Persepolis Fortification Texts (Hallock published)

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Persepolis Fortification Texts (Hallock manuscript)

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Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum

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Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum

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Tituli Asiae Minoris

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Collections of the Vatican Museum

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Inscriptions of Xerxes from Persepolis

All dates are BCE

Assyrian Empire invades and conquers Egypt

Psammetichus I takes power in Egypt, leads a rebellion in Egypt against the Assyrian Empire and founds the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty

c. 625

Greek mercenaries in Egypt settle at a location that would become Naucratis

625609

Wars between the Assyrian Empire on one side and an alliance of Medes and Babylonians on the other, ending with the destruction of the Assyrian Empire

Psammetichus II of Egypt campaigns in Kush with Greek mercenaries

c. 570

The city of Naucratis formally established as a Greek enclave in Egypt

c. 560

The kingdom of Lydia conquers many of the Ionian Greek cities

c. 559

Cyrus II comes to power in Persia

c. 550

Cyrus begins the conquest of what would become the Achaemenid Persian Empire

Cyrus conquers Lydia

Cyrus dies, succeeded by Cambyses II

Cambyses invades and conquers Egypt

Cambyses dies, succeeded by Bardiya; Bardiya killed in a coup led by Darius, who becomes Darius I

Darius campaigns against the Scythians

Hippias, tyrant of Athens, forced out of power and flees the city

499493

Ionian Revolt

A Persian expedition against mainland Greece fails when the fleet carrying it is wrecked off the Athos peninsula

A Persian expedition against Naxos, Eretria, and Athens ends with the battle of Marathon

Darius dies, succeeded by Xerxes I

Revolt in Babylon

Xerxes expedition against mainland Greece; the battles of Thermopylae, Artemisium, and Salamis

Battles of Plataea and Mycale, end of Xerxes Greek expedition

Pausanias accused of conspiring with Xerxes, dies before he can be brought to trial

472 or 471

Themistocles ostracized from Athens

470s

Delian League founded and begins operations against Persian possessions in Anatolia and the eastern Mediterranean

Battle of the Eurymedon River

Xerxes killed, succeeded by Artaxerxes I; during the struggle for succession in Persia, a rebellion begins in Egypt led by Inarus

450s

Egyptian and Athenian forces defeated in Egypt, Inarus rebellion ends with Persian reconquest

Peace of Callias, dtente between Persia and Athens

431404

Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta

Persians begin an alliance with Sparta through Tissaphernes

c. 410

Amyrtaeus begins revolt against Persia in Egypt

Cyrus the Younger attempts coup against Artaxerxes II with Greek mercenary army, defeated at Cunaxa

396395

Spartan invasion of Persian-held territories in Anatolia