Why did Darius regard Athens as an enemy of Persia? Discuss the factors that resulted in the Athenian victory in 490BC. Darius regarded Athens as an enemy due to her sending twenty warships along with Eretria who sent five to aid Aristagorus in his revolt against the Persian King in Ionia. “The sailing of this fleet was the beginning of trouble not only for Greece but for other people” Herodotus. During the Ionian revolt the …showed first 75 words of 1367 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1367 total…to. “Liberty and Equality of civic right are brave spirit stirring things, and they who, while under the yoke of a despot, had been no better men of war than any of their neighbours, as soon as they were free, became the foremost men of all. For each felt that in fighting for a free commonwealth, he fought for himself and whatever he took in hand he was willing to do the work thoroughly.” Herodotus.