found itself under the threat of a new menace. Commanded by the young new

Emperor Xerxes I, the Persian Army returned to Europe with over 200,000 men in

what was the largest invasion force the world had ever seen. While diplomacy

was committed by brute force and sheer numbers, the powerful Greek city-states

of Athens and Sparta joined in alliance to confront their new enemy and change

Western history forever. On this episode we discuss the Second Invasion of

Greece, the 300 Spartans, the Battle of Thermopylae, and the end of the

Greco-Persian Wars.