"300 Spartans vs 200,000 Persians — The Full Story of Thermopylae, Salamis & Plataea”

In 480 BC, the largest army the ancient world had ever seen crossed into Europe to erase Greece from history. What followed was a war fought across a mountain pass, a burning city, a narrow strait, and two final battlefields that no empire ever fully recovered from. This is the full story of the Second Greco-Persian War — Thermopylae, Artemisium, Salamis, Plataea, and Mycale — told from the crossing of the Hellespont to the last Persian ship burned on a foreign beach. If you want more deep-dive ancient history documentaries like this, make sure to like, subscribe, and turn on notifications — the next episode covers what happened after the war ended: The Peloponnesian War, when the same allies who saved Greece turned on each other. #Thermopylae #300Spartans #AncientGreece #PersianEmpire #Sparta #Xerxes #Salamis #Plataea #History #AncientHistory #Documentary #GrecoPersianWars #Leonidas #AncientWarfare