Extra Battle Information

Question 0

Spartan trickery

Answer 0

Spartans turned their backs and fled
Persians ran in pursuit
Spartans quickly turned to face them and slew a large number

Question 1

What happened before Marathon

Answer 1

Persians sailed towards the Eretrians
The Athenians came to help but left
The city was betrayed
Temples were burnt and plundered (revenge for Sardis)

Question 2

Magistias

Answer 2

Gave the first warning to the Greeks
Death was destined to them at dawn
Separate grave
“Although he knew for certain that doom was coming, he would not leave the leaders of Sparta”
Sent back his only son- “the strongest evidence for this”

Question 3

Leonidas’s Prophecy

Answer 3

Either their city would be overturned or a Spartan king killed

Question 4

Dieneces

Answer 4

The bravest of the fighting men
How could we know what he said
Or who acted bravely
-no survivors

Question 5

Before Salamis

Answer 5

Greeks did not know they were encircled

Aristides told Themistocles that battle must happen at Salamis

Question 6

Mardonius after Salamis

Answer 6

Considered he would be punished for persuading the king
Decided to try and bring Greece under Persian control or dying a noble death
Picked 300,000 men

Question 7

Eurybiades contradictory depiction to Temistocles

Answer 7

Xerxes should be allowed to escape back to Asia, as the war could then be carried on his own territory

Question 8

Themistocles is a sneaky bitch

Answer 8

“Themistocles the Wthenian wishes to help you and has persuaded the Greeks not to peruse your ships or destroy the bridges over the Hellespont”