Nevertheless with Athens now at it weakest ebb, many of its former colonies and allies were defecting to the Spartan cause. Persia, the old enemy, had even struck up a series of alliances with ...

a Spartan warrior named Dienekes was told that the Persian archers could blank out the sun with their arrows. He replied "Good, then we shall have our battle in the shade." A Sybarite, who ate at ...

Sparta and Athens fought a long war ... who came from an area around modern day Iran. The Persian kings tried to conquer Greece a few times but the Greeks managed to fight them off.