For educational purposes<br /><br />This documentary focuses on the conflicts between the Greek city states and the Persian Empire in the 5th century BC.<br /><br />Including the famous Greek victory at Marathon, and the Spartans' defence of the pass at Thermopylae, which ensured Greek freedom and victory.<br /><br />Features dramatised reconstructions and analysis by experts in the field of ancient history. <br /><br />This is the story of bloody conflicts between the Greeks and the Persians that lasted for more than fifty years in the fourth century BC. <br /><br />It includes the famous battle of Marathon, a victory that has echoed down the year, and Thermopylae, where the Spartans made a heroic defence of the pass. <br /><br />The running battles did not cease until 449 BC, when the Persians finally gave up hope of annexing Greece.
