Western media and historiography have exaggerated a lot about the relation of Persian Empire and Greece and presents a distorted picture and imbalanced view which blows the importance of Greece out of proportion. This trend actually started in the Classical Greece itself and has continued to our day. We hear ridiculous claims such as 'Greeks saved the civilization and guaranteed human freedom and liberty by defeating Persia' or clichés such as 'Eastern tyranny' and so.
In the past couple decades this view has been questioned and critical research has started to reveal the true picture of Persian Empire and its relations with Greece. In this talk we are going to have a look at the history of Greece and introduce these new efforts and as an example, look at the Battle of Marathon, the first major event in the so-called 'Greco-Persian Wars'.
