07-30-2007, 11:04 AM
I rather suspect that if the Greeks had tried a major invasion of the Persian empire in 479BC they'd have had their heads handed to them on a plate - I don't think their military system would have been up to it unlike the Makedonian army over 100 years later.
Nik Gaukroger
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