The Greco - Persian wars were a series of conflicts from 499 BC to 449 BC between allied Greek city states and the Persian Achaemenid Empire.

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Was there an assassination attempt against Xerxes in the battle of Thermopylae?

I watched Frank Miller's 300 last night with my girlfriend, and after the movie ended she mentioned the assassination attempt against Xerxes would have been a great plot element for the movie and that ...