{"id":101750,"date":"2026-08-24T02:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=101750"},"modified":"2026-04-06T22:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:51:08","slug":"the-ancient-greeks-04-the-persian-invasion-4-the-fall-of-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/the-ancient-greeks-04-the-persian-invasion-4-the-fall-of-athens\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ancient Greeks 04 &#8211; The Persian Invasion 4 &#8211; The Fall of Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uJipqEtzhe4?si=6WTVMQr0r4os1KWD\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>seangabb<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 26 Mar 2026  <\/p>\n<p>Greece: A Brief History, c.700 BC &#8211; 500 AD<\/p>\n<p>What happens when resistance fails?<\/p>\n<p>In this lecture, we examine the dramatic collapse of Greek resistance after Thermopylae and the advance of the Persian army into central Greece. With the Spartan force destroyed, the road to Athens lay open.<\/p>\n<p>We explore:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The consequences of Thermopylae<br \/>\n&#8211; The evacuation of Athens under Themistocles<br \/>\n&#8211; The Persian capture and destruction of the city<br \/>\n&#8211; The psychological and strategic impact on the Greek world<br \/>\n&#8211; Why, at this moment, Persian victory seemed inevitable<\/p>\n<p>This is the darkest point of the war for the Greeks \u2014 a moment when everything appears lost, and yet the story is far from over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>seangabb Published 26 Mar 2026 Greece: A Brief History, c.700 BC &#8211; 500 AD What happens when resistance fails? In this lecture, we examine the dramatic collapse of Greek resistance after Thermopylae and the advance of the Persian army into central Greece. With the Spartan force destroyed, the road to Athens lay open. We explore: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1526,7,370,5],"tags":[1527,732,1617,1066,30,1101,558,1468],"class_list":["post-101750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greece","category-history","category-middle-east","category-military","tag-ancientgreece","tag-athens","tag-herodotus","tag-logistics","tag-navy","tag-persia","tag-refugees","tag-seangabb"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qt8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101751,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101750\/revisions\/101751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}