Dr. Roel Konijnendijk

Precisely. And we know from the Byzantine inscription of Xerxes' father Darius that the annihilation of rebel kings is what you're after. You don't keep them imprisoned at all. You lop off the head. So this is all done for him, really, and it's a great victory.

Precisely. And we know from the Byzantine inscription of Xerxes' father Darius that the annihilation of rebel kings is what you're after. You don't keep them imprisoned at all. You lop off the head. So this is all done for him, really, and it's a great victory.

Precisely. And we know from the Byzantine inscription of Xerxes' father Darius that the annihilation of rebel kings is what you're after. You don't keep them imprisoned at all. You lop off the head. So this is all done for him, really, and it's a great victory.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It really does make more sense, doesn't it? When you're thinking about, as you described the geography, you know, we're going into this narrow past. There's no way the whole Persian force would have been brought down there. There's simply no geographic room for them.

It really does make more sense, doesn't it? When you're thinking about, as you described the geography, you know, we're going into this narrow past. There's no way the whole Persian force would have been brought down there. There's simply no geographic room for them.

It really does make more sense, doesn't it? When you're thinking about, as you described the geography, you know, we're going into this narrow past. There's no way the whole Persian force would have been brought down there. There's simply no geographic room for them.

Not at all. I mean, the success of the Persian military had always been about keeping the distance and letting the arrows do the work, really. Quite right.

Not at all. I mean, the success of the Persian military had always been about keeping the distance and letting the arrows do the work, really. Quite right.

Not at all. I mean, the success of the Persian military had always been about keeping the distance and letting the arrows do the work, really. Quite right.

We have dozens of later Greek accounts of the Persian king showing his largesse and beneficence by giving humble peasants silver cups full of coins and so forth. It is part of the Persian mission as well to do that.

We have dozens of later Greek accounts of the Persian king showing his largesse and beneficence by giving humble peasants silver cups full of coins and so forth. It is part of the Persian mission as well to do that.

We have dozens of later Greek accounts of the Persian king showing his largesse and beneficence by giving humble peasants silver cups full of coins and so forth. It is part of the Persian mission as well to do that.

But perhaps in narrative terms, you need the scapegoat, don't you? You need to tie it up somehow. You need the villain after all.

But perhaps in narrative terms, you need the scapegoat, don't you? You need to tie it up somehow. You need the villain after all.

But perhaps in narrative terms, you need the scapegoat, don't you? You need to tie it up somehow. You need the villain after all.

And you really get a sense of The fear in Athens from the archaeological record in particular, it's amazing, you know, that all of those beautiful marble statues we have of Kourai, these beautiful sort of naked males and beautifully dressed female figurines, which were possibly grave markers.

And you really get a sense of The fear in Athens from the archaeological record in particular, it's amazing, you know, that all of those beautiful marble statues we have of Kourai, these beautiful sort of naked males and beautifully dressed female figurines, which were possibly grave markers.