The Battle of Thermopylae - Radio programme considers the significance of the battle with audience comments. The Persians - A play as written in 470 BC by Aeschylus translated by Robert Potter. Themistocles - Biography by Plutarch written 75 A.C.E. and translated by John Dryden. Aeschylus - The Persians - A play written in 472 B.C.E. of the earliest account of the wars as translated by Niall McCloskey and John Porter. Herodotus - Artemisia at Salamis - Selection from The History, 480 B.C.E. Herodotus - Solon and Croesus - A story of an encounter from The Histories. Themistocles - A brief biography.