Year 479 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vibulanus and Rutilus (or, less frequently...

Aristodemus (Greek: Ἀριστόδημος, died 479 BC) was a Spartan warrior, one of the 300 sent to the Battle of Thermopylae. Aristodemus was the only Spartan...

This article concerns the period 479 BC – 470 BC. The Persian commander Mardonius, now based in Thessaly, wins support from Argus and western Arcadia...

the Veientines. 479 BC: The Battle of Plataea, the Greeks defeat the Persians, ending the Persian Wars. 479 BC: Battle of Mycale. 479 BC: Potidaea is struck...

of Mycale, before expelling Persian garrisons from Sestos (479 BC) and Byzantium (478 BC). Following the Persian withdrawal from Europe and the Greek...

492 BC by his son Artaphernes II. Lydians enrolled in the Achaemenid army, and participated to the Second Persian invasion of Greece (480–479 BC). Sardis...

The second Persian invasion of Greece (480–479 BC) occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes I of Persia sought to conquer all of Greece....

following the defeat and withdrawal of the Achaemenid Empire in 479 BC. Around 513 BC, as part of the military incursions ordered by Darius I, a huge...

The 479 BC Potidaea tsunami is the oldest record of a paleotsunami in human history. The tsunami is believed to have been triggered by a Ms 7.0 earthquake...

In 479 BC, he was re-elected strategos, and given special powers as commander of the Athenian forces at the Battle of Plataea of August 479 BC; he is...