The Macedonian army of King Philip II and Alexander the Great was renowned for its success in conquering the Persian Empire.

Saint Anastasius was a Persian by race, the son of a Magus, and a soldier in the Persian army in the days of Chosroes II, King of Persia, and Heraclius, Emperor of New Rome. The Saint's Persian name ...

Ionian Greek conscripts, drafted into the Persian army, are believed to have further aided the Athenian cause by passing on information about the Persian cavalry which, after a four day standoff ...

Xerxes had amassed a huge army and navy, and set out to conquer all of Greece. The Athenian general Themistocles had proposed that the allied Greeks block the advance of the Persian army at the ...