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 | | As it turned out, it was not just the battle of a David against a Goliath but the greatest military campaign of the fifth century B.C., the century of Athens--and one of the boldest, most unlikely, and most momentous campaigns in world history. |
 | | Battles were traditionally fought on land, honorably, face-to-face on solid ground, the way the Greeks had met the Persians at Marathon in 490 and, with the help of the gods, emerged victorious. |
 | | Half a generation earlier, when the Ionian Greeks were getting ready for their crucial sea battle against the Persians at Lade in 495, Dionysius, commander of the three ships Phocaea had contributed, convinced the Ionians to toil furiously for the sake of future freedom. |
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