Why did the Persians let the Greeks win the war?
Those cry babies as you so mock them, won because of their ability to combine together and fight as a united people when threatened, and because of their concentration on heavy infantry (Sparta) and a predominantly trireme-based navy (Athens) Persia put conscripts from conquered nations in their front lines – not as effective a willed fighting force, compared to Athenians and Spartans who had common bonds, language and the same essential desire to save their homeland. The Greeks won through better discipline and training, their ferocity and the inspiration of the example of King Leonidas and the 300 who sacrificed themselves to allow the rest of Greece to get organized. Today, we will show you that same organization when we all report you and send your troll-butt packing!
Historical Sources Herodotus is the main source for this conflict (Bust at the Stoa of Attalus). Thucydides picks up where Herodotus ends but gives only limited information (Bust in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto). What is known of this conflict today comes almost exclusively from the Greek sources. Herodotus of Halicarnassus after his exile from his home town, in the middle of the 5th century BC travelled all over the Mediterranean and beyond, from Scythia to Egypt collecting information over the Persian Wars and other events that he complied in his book Ιστοριης Απόδειξη (known in English as The Histories). He begins with Croesus’s conquest of Ionia[3] and ends with the fall of Sestus in 479 BC.[4] He is believed to repeat what was told to him by his hosts and sponsors without subjecting it to critical control, thus giving us at times the truth, at times exaggerations and at times political propaganda. However, ancient writers consider his work much better in quality than that of
