Essay on classical greece and the city-states
Greece was not a united nation at this time, even during the wars against the two Persian invasions of Darius and Xerxes, which had ended in total defeat of the would-be conquerors at the naval battle of Salamis and the land battles of Marathon and Plataea. So were the playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the โ