The Wars of the Delian League were a series of campaigns fought between the Delian League of Athens and her allies, and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia. These conflicts represent a continuation of the
Thucydides, whose history provides many of the details of this period
Pericles, the Athenian politician who led Athens through much of her "Golden Age"
The ancient Persian fort at Eion (left) and the mouth of the Strymon River (right), seen from Ennea Hodoi (Amphipolis).
Reconstructed model of a trireme, the type of ship in use by both the Greek and Persian forces
Artaxerxes I was the fifth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire of Persia, from August 465 to December 424 BC. He was the third son of Xerxes I.
Relief of Artaxerxes I, from his tomb in Naqsh-e Rustam
Closeup of the Zvenigorodsky seal, believed at least by one scholar to depict Artaxerxes seizing Inaros
The ancient Egyptian god Amun-Min in front of Artaxerxes' cartouche
"He [Themistocles] stood silent before the king [Artaxerxes]", by Walter Crane