I. Introduction: Wars as Turning
Points in History
II. Criticisms of Herodotus
III. The Persian War
A. Greek settlement
of Ionia
B. Lydian/Persian
conquest of Ionia
C. Rise of Persian
Empire
D. Ionian Revolt
E. Divisions
among the Greeks
F. Persian advance
on Greece (Naxos, Eretria)
G. Marathon
(Callimachus/Miltiades)
H. Xerxes advance
into Greece
I. Thermopylae
J. Advance on
Athens
H. Salamis (Themistocles)
I. Plataea (Pausanias
vs. Mardonius)
J. Mycale (Xanthippus)