Prelude to Thermopylae by Ivan Berryman [Postcard]

Artist: Ivan Berryman [browse all Ivan Berryman]

In 480 BC the Spartans tried to defend the pass at Thermopylae against
the Persians led by Xerxes. The Persian fleet had sailed along the
coastline from northern Greece into the Gulf of Malia on the eastern
Aegean Sea towards the mountains at Thermopylae. The Greek General
and King Leonidas led the Greeks and tried to defend the pass of
Thermopylae. All the defending Spartans were killed during the Battle
of Thermopylae. Their defence and courage provided inspiration to the
Greeks, and the following year the Greeks won battles against their
old enemy the Persians.

Postcard Size:  6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)