the Eretrians from Aegilia, and then sailed back to Asia Minor, thereby ending the campaign, and the first Persian invasion of Greece. When the Persian fleet arrived in Asia Minor, Datis and Artaphernes took the Eretrians before Darius in Susa. The Eretrians were not harmed by Darius who decided to settle them in the town of Ardericca in Cissia. They were still there, using their own language and customs, when Herodotus wrote his history, and were encountered by Alexander the Great during his conquest of Persia a further century later. In the meantime, Darius began raising a huge new army with which he meant to completely subjugate Greece; however, in 486 BC, his Egyptian subjects revolted, indefinitely postponing any Greek expedition. Darius then died whilst preparing to march on Egypt, and the throne of Persia passed to his son Xerxes I. Xerxes crushed the Egyptian revolt, and very quickly restarted the preparations for the invasion of Greece. The epic second Persian invasion of Greece finally began in 480 BC, and the Persians met with initial success at the battles of Thermopylae and Artemisium. However, defeat at the Battle of Salamis would be the turning point in the campaign, and the next year the expedition was ended by the decisive Greek victory at the Battle of Plataea. See also Battle of Salamis Achaemenid destruction of Athens References Bibliography Ancient sources Herodotus, The Histories Perseus online version Ctesias, Persica (excerpt in Photius's epitome) Diodorus Siculus, Biblioteca Historica. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War Cicero, On the Laws Cornelius Nepos, Miltiades Plutarch, Moralia Pausanias, Description of Greece Suda Dictionary (unknown author) Plato, Menexenus Justin, epitome of Trogus Pompeius's Philipic History Lysias, Funeral Oration Modern sources Holland, Tom. Persian Fire. London: Abacus, 2005 () Lloyd, Alan. Marathon:The Crucial Battle That Created Western Democracy. Souvenir Press, 2004. () Green, Peter. The Greco-Persian Wars. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970; revised ed., 1996 (hardcover, ); 1998 (paperback, ). Lazenby, JF. The Defence of Greece 490–479 BC. Aris & Phillips Ltd., 1993 () Fox, Robin Lane. Alexander the Great. Penguin, 1973 () Fehling, D. Herodotus and His "Sources": Citation, Invention, and Narrative Art. Translated by J.G. Howie. Leeds: Francis Cairns, 1989. Higbie, C. The Lindian Chronicle and the Greek Creation of their Past. Oxford University Press, 2003. Battles involving ancient Greece Eretria Battles of the Greco-Persian Wars Ancient Eretria 490s BC conflicts 490 BC