This is the History of the World Podcast with me Chris Hasler

And you're listening to volume three, the classical world

episode 11

The Second Persian Invasion of Greece, Part 1. The Let's take a short geography lesson so that we can understand the journey that the

ekeminid Persians would take to invade the Greek polis.

If you were based in the Anatolian setropies of Lydia and Ionia,

which were the geographical regions of the Ionian revolt.

To travel to Greece, you would have to go northwards up the Anatolian coast where you would reach the important waterway of the Hellers Pond, which

separates traditional Asian lands from the traditional European lands.

After crossing the Hellerspont, you are in the land of Thrace,

where you will change direction westwards towards the Balkan Peninsula.

Upon arriving in the lands of Macedonia,

you switch direction again and head southwards into the Balkan Peninsula through the lands of Thessaly.

This is where you arrive at the part of the Bulken Peninsula where the island of Ubia runs parallel to the mainland.

Artomesium is the settlement in the very north of Yubia and Thermopylae is adjacent on the mainland.

If you travel the waterway

enter the waterway called the Yubian Gulf

which separates the island of Yubia from the mainland.

Heading southwards on this waterway you pass the Yubian cities of Kalsis and Eritrea to your left and then Marathon on the Attica

Peninsula to your right which was the site of last week's battle. You can then circun navigate the Attica

Peninsula to reach Athens and the small island of Salomis, which you will pass to reach the isthmus of Corinth, the small

strip of land that takes you from the bulk of the Balkan Peninsula onto the large landmass of the Pel this episode in this epic period of classical world history,

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