Spartans vs persia?

Who won the war in real acient times?


Me and wife are wondering we just watched the movie.
Spartans vs persia?
Persia won The Battle of Thermopylae.





Greece won the Greco-Persian War though.
Spartans vs persia?
A coalition of Greek city states led by Athens and Sparta defeated the Persians at the Battle of Plataea.
Reply:Well the Persians did defeat the Spartan resistence at Thermopylae but the greeks did conquer Persia at the naval battle of Salamis and the land battle of Platea. And from a more tactical and moral point of view, the spartans did win. They made it their mission to fight while the rest of the greeks retreated. And the spartans task in life was to die in battle. They did that.
Reply:The Greek coalition won the war. The point of the stand at the "hot gates" was not as futile as it might seem from the movie the 300. In fact, the Spartans did not stand alone either, others--more than depicted in the movie, joined them. 300 refers to the 300 Spartans. The point of the battle was to give the Greek city-state---who were prone to figthing each other and did not always form a united front---time to debate and formulate a plan to deal with the Persians. If the Persians were not delayed for these three days--and the loss of men---there is a good chance they could have faced off against the city-states and their coalitions (Athenian League and allies, Spartan (Delian) coalition, etc) without all the Greeks standing together for a common defense. The sacrifice was heroic, but not pointless.
Reply:The Greco-Persian wars actually began in 499 BC with the rise-up of several Greek cities in Asia Minor against their Persian rulers. Eventually, King Darius led a Persian invasion of Greece in 490 BC but would be thwarted at the Battle of Marathon. The legend of the start of the marathon comes from that battle, when a runner named Pheidippides was first sent to Sparta to ask for help when Persian forces landed near Marathon. He ran 150 miles in 2 days. After the Greeks won, he ran 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to share the news of the Greek victory where he dies on the spot right after.





Ten years later, in 480 BC, King Xerxes I leads the Persians to invade the Greek mainland again. After the battle of Thermopylae (the story of the 300 soldiers) the Greek navy fled to Salamis. Legend has it Xerxes watched for what he thought would be victory, but his navy was destroyed by the smaller and faster Greek ships. The following year, the Greek contingent won the battle of Plataea, and while skirmishes continued up until 449 BC, the Persian threat to Greece was done with.
Reply:Ok Persia will win the battle at thermopylae but lose the war to the Greeks at the battle of Salamis later that year. Athens was burned to the Ground. Later Alexander the Great will defeat the Persians. So two wins for the Greeks and none for the Persians.