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The Achaemenid Navy: Persia's Masters of the Mediterranean
When we think of the Achaemenid Empire, we picture the Immortals at Thermopylae or the Royal Road across Anatolia. But Persia's true superpower at sea often gets overlooked. In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into the Achaemenid navy—a force that combined Phoenician, Egyptian, Cypriot, and Ionian shipwrights and crews under Persian command. They explore how Darius I and Xerxes built a fleet of over a thousand triremes, how the navy conquered Ionia and Egypt, and how it nearly defeated Greece. They discuss the Battle of Lade (494 BCE), the disastrous campaign against the Greeks at Salamis…
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