The Hello and welcome to the History of Ancient Greece podcast. I am very much not your host. My name is Charlie and I host a

podcast called The Almost Forgotten. There we take a look at the lives and times of

great historical figures who have fallen through the cracks of our collective memories.

Rather than discussing people who all you history podcast fans know quite a bit about,

I focus on biographies of those you maybe have only heard a little bit about, but who have only heard a little bit about, but who have still made a big impact

on our world.

For fans of the Hellenistic world, I recently finished up a five-part series on the Diadiki, the successors

who fought over Alexander the Great's empire after he died.

Mostly though I managed to fit one subject in each episode.

Some of those have been Mithridi's The Great of Pontas, Chandra Gupta Maria of India,

Hered and Barbarossa of the Ottoman Empire, and Parma Swara of the Malacca Sultanate.

But enough about my podcast.

It's time to get back to the history of ancient Greece.

Ryan has done an excellent job of taking us through the very beginnings of the ancient Greek

peoples right up through the classical period.

I really have enjoyed listening to this podcast and I think it's because Ryan

clearly has a passion for the subject and a true depth of knowledge of it.

That's probably enough for me. I hope you do check out my podcast, Almost Forgotten, but first let's listen a bit more to the

history of ancient Greece. The So, The Hello and welcome back to the history of ancient Greece episode 39 the Greek

counterattack the Greek victory at Salamus ended the immediate threat to Greece, and Xerxes now returned to Asia with part of the army, leaving behind his General Mardonius to attempt to complete the conquest of the Greek mainland.

Mardon Thessaly, and the Athenians were thus able to return in winter in their city,

which had been burnt and raised by the Persians.

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