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Line of Fire

Season 3 · Episode 11

The Spartan Wars (490 BC)

0.045mMay 11, 2011

How the Persian army underestimated the might of Greek forces at Marathon in 490 BC. But how did the victors achieve their aim?

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Episode 1The Battle of Edgehill (1642)
Episode 2The Battle of Naseby (1645)
Episode 3The Battle of Bannockburn
Episode 4The Battle of Marston Moor (1644)
Episode 5Viking! The Norse Raiders
Episode 6The Battle of Hastings (1066)
Episode 7Caesar Conqueror of Gaul (52 BC)
Episode 8The Roman Conquests of Britain (55 BC)
Episode 9The Conquests of Alexander
Episode 10Hannibal's Great Triumph (216 BC)
Episode 11The Spartan Wars (490 BC)
Episode 12Disaster for Athens (404 BC)
Episode 13Episode 13