Persian Wars · Atlas

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Persian War6 mentions

On the False Embassy (Greek) · Antidosis (Greek) · Panathenaicus (Greek) · Plataicus (Greek) · Panegyricus (Greek) · History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)

although the whole of our citadel is a holy place, and although its area is so large, the inscription stands at the right hand beside the great brazen Athene which was dedicated by the state as a memorial of victory in the Persian war, at the expense of the Greeks.

on the false embassy ¶

The Persian Wars4 mentions

On the Peace with Sparta (Greek) · The Funeral Speech (Greek) · History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek) · Panegyricus (Greek)

then the existing fleet of old, unseaworthy triremes with which we had won Greece her independence by defeating the king of Persia and his barbarians—these existing vessels were replaced by a hundred new ones:

on the peace with sparta ¶

Median invasion“Persian Wars”1 mention

History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)

And after the Median invasion, having got a fleet, we released ourselves from the empire and supremacy of the Lacedaemonians;

chapter 6 ¶

Persian invasion of Greece“Xerxes's campaign”1 mention

Panegyricus (Greek)

when the other states had submitted to the barbarians and were fighting on the Persian side, save only those which were overlooked because of their insignificance;

panegyricus ¶

The Persian invasion of Greece1 mention

History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)

Even though we are an inland people, we were present in the sea-fight at Artemisium, and in the battle fought in our territory we stood by you and Pausanias;

chapter 3 ¶

in the texts

History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

The earlier Persian invasions of Greece, referenced twice as the sole precedent for large-scale devastation of Athenian territory and as the disaster from which Athens had only recently recovered.

When, however, they saw the army at Acharnae, only sixty stades from the city, they considered it no longer bearable, and, as was natural, when their land was being ravaged before their eyes—a thing which the younger men had never yet seen, nor even the elder, except in the Persian wars—it was thought a great indignity, and all of them, especially the young men, determined to go out against them, …

chapter 2 ¶

and after they were united, still, from the force of habit, the generality of them at that early period, and even afterwards, down to the time of this war, having with all their families settled and lived in the country, did not remove without reluctance, (especially as they had but lately recovered their establishments after the Median war,) but were distressed and grieved to leave their houses, …

chapter 2 ¶

For not even have you, though practising from the very time of the Median war, brought it to perfection as yet;

chapter 1 ¶

On the PeaceClassical · Greek

The earlier wars against Persia invoked as the proper ancestral model for Athenian conduct.

Do they mean those who lived at the time of the Persian Wars or those who governed the city before the Decelean War?

on the peace ¶

The families of the most illustrious Athenians and our greatest houses, which survived the civil conflicts under the tyrants and the Persian Wars as well, have been, you will find, entirely wiped out under this empire upon which we set our hearts.

on the peace ¶

And it was because they acquired just this position that our ancestors in the time of the Persian Wars did not live in the manner of freebooters, now having more than enough for their needs, again reduced to a state of famine and siege and extreme misfortune;

on the peace ¶

PanegyricusClassical · Greek

The successive invasions of Greece by the Persian kings Darius and then Xerxes, and the Athenian and Spartan resistance to them.

They first displayed their valor when Darius sent his troops;

panegyricus ¶

Then came the later expedition, which was led by Xerxes in person;

panegyricus ¶

so strenuously did they both hasten, the Lacedaemonians to share in the dangers, the Athenians to engage the enemy before their helpers should arrive.

panegyricus ¶

On the Peace with SpartaClassical · Greek

The earlier war in which Athens, using her old triremes, defeated the Persian king and won Greece her independence.

then the existing fleet of old, unseaworthy triremes with which we had won Greece her independence by defeating the king of Persia and his barbarians—these existing vessels were replaced by a hundred new ones:

on the peace with sparta ¶

Constitution of the AtheniansClassical · Greek

Historical conflict used as a temporal reference point for the Athenians' recovery of Theseus's bones.

The Athenians after the Persian Wars, in accordance with an oracle, took up his bones from there and buried them.

constitution of the athenians ¶

On the False EmbassyClassical · Greek

Earlier war commemorated by a state dedication on the citadel.

although the whole of our citadel is a holy place, and although its area is so large, the inscription stands at the right hand beside the great brazen Athene which was dedicated by the state as a memorial of victory in the Persian war, at the expense of the Greeks.

on the false embassy ¶

The Funeral SpeechClassical · Greek

The historical repulse, twice, by land and sea, of an invading expedition assembled from the whole of Asia, understood as an allusion to the Persian invasions of Greece.

Those men single-handed twice repulsed by land and sea the expedition assembled out of the whole of Asia, and at their individual risks established themselves as the authors of the joint salvation of all the Greeks.

the funeral speech ¶

OrationsImperial · Greek

The historical wars between Greece and Persia, referenced as the turning point after which Greek cities favored Athens.

But formerly too there was once a jealousy between the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians, and at first the Laconians led, then it befell the Greeks to incline rather toward the Athenians after the Persian wars.

oration 34 ¶

AntidosisClassical · Greek

The war during which Themistocles persuaded Athenians to abandon the city for strategic advantage.

After him, Themistocles, placed at the head of our forces in the Persian War, counselled our ancestors to abandon the city (and who could have persuaded them to do this but a man of surpassing eloquence?

antidosis ¶

AreopagiticusClassical · Greek

Wars against the Persians in which ancestral Athenians won valor by defeating barbarians.

This conclusion we may justly draw from the ancient struggles which they carried on against the Amazons and the Thracians and all of the Peloponnesians, and also from the wars which they waged against the Persians, in which, both when they fought alone and when they were aided by the Peloponnesians, whether on land or on the sea, they were victorious over the barbarians and were adjudged the meed of valor;

areopagiticus ¶

PanathenaicusClassical · Greek

The war against Xerxes' Persian invasion, used to compare Athenian and Spartan contributions to the salvation of Hellas.

And the greatest proof of this is that those who then fought together took the hegemony away from the Lacedaemonians and conferred it upon our ancestors.

panathenaicus ¶

Again, the Lacedaemonians contributed to this battle the leadership of Eurybiades, who, had he carried into effect what he intended to do, could have been prevented by nothing in the world from bringing destruction upon the Hellenes, whereas the Athenians furnished Themistocles, who, by the common assent of all, was credited with being responsible for the victorious outcome of that battle as well …

panathenaicus ¶

But at a later time, when the Persian War took place (Xerxes, who was then king, having gathered together a fleet of thirteen hundred triremes and a land force numbering five millions in all, including seven hundred thousand fighting men, and led this vast force against the Hellenes), the Spartans, although they were masters of the Peloponnesus, contributed to the sea-fight which determined the is …

panathenaicus ¶

PlataicusClassical · Greek

The war against Persia remembered as the setting of Plataean aid and Greek freedom.

For while all other trophies have been erected by one city victorious over another, those were in commemoration of the victory of all Greece pitted against all the power of Asia.

plataicus ¶

for it was after favorable sacrifice to them that you took upon yourselves a battle so decisive that it established the freedom of both the Thebans and all the other Greeks besides.

plataicus ¶

It is a just request, for our ancestors, we are told, when in the Persian War your fathers had abandoned this land, alone of those who lived outside of the Peloponnesus shared in their perils and thus helped them to save their city.

plataicus ¶