A report on Mardonius (nephew of Darius I)

Gobryas, father of Mardonius, on the tomb of Darius I.
Mardonius led the Destruction of Athens. Part of the archaeological remains called Perserschutt, or "Persian rubble".
Answer of the Athenian Aristides to the ambassadors of Mardonius: "As long as the sun holds to its present course, we shall never come to terms with Xerxes".
Camp of Mardonius and disposition of Achaemenid troops at the Battle of Plataea (479 BC), in which Mardonius was killed. From left to right: Greek allies, Sacae, Indians, Bactrians, Medes and Persians.

Leading Persian military commander during the Persian Wars with Greece in the early 5th century BC who died at the Battle of Plataea.

- Mardonius (nephew of Darius I)
Gobryas, father of Mardonius, on the tomb of Darius I.

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Artemisia, Queen of Halicarnassus, and commander of the Carian contingent, shooting arrows at the Greeks at the Battle of Salamis. Wilhelm von Kaulbach

Artemisia I of Caria

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Queen of the ancient Greek city-state of Halicarnassus and of the nearby islands of Kos, Nisyros and Kalymnos, within the Achaemenid satrapy of Caria, in about 480 BC. She was of Carian-Greek ethnicity by her father Lygdamis I, and half-Cretan by her mother.

Queen of the ancient Greek city-state of Halicarnassus and of the nearby islands of Kos, Nisyros and Kalymnos, within the Achaemenid satrapy of Caria, in about 480 BC. She was of Carian-Greek ethnicity by her father Lygdamis I, and half-Cretan by her mother.

Artemisia, Queen of Halicarnassus, and commander of the Carian contingent, shooting arrows at the Greeks at the Battle of Salamis. Wilhelm von Kaulbach
Coinage of Caria at the time of Artemisia (c. 480–460 BC).
Coinage of Kaunos, Caria at the end of Artemisia's rule, and beginning of the rule of her son Pisindelis. Obv: Winged female figure running right, head left, holding kerykeion in her right hand, and a victory wreath in left. Rev: Baetyl in incuse square. Circa 470–450 BC.
Eva Green played Artemisia in the 2014 film, 300: Rise of an Empire.

Before the battle of Salamis, Xerxes gathered all his naval commanders and sent Mardonios to ask whether or not he should fight a naval battle.

Theatrical release poster

The 300 Spartans

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1962 CinemaScope epic film depicting the Battle of Thermopylae.

1962 CinemaScope epic film depicting the Battle of Thermopylae.

Theatrical release poster
Epitaph with Simonides' epigram (modern replica)

Kostas Baladimas as Mardonius, Persian general

300: March to Glory

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Video game by American developer Collision Studios for the PlayStation Portable that was released on February 27, 2007, based on the 1998 comic book mini-series 300 by Frank Miller and the 2007 film of the same name.

Video game by American developer Collision Studios for the PlayStation Portable that was released on February 27, 2007, based on the 1998 comic book mini-series 300 by Frank Miller and the 2007 film of the same name.

The player battles through hordes of Persian warriors including slaves, spearmen, archers, Immortals, Persian champions, two Persian generals, Mardonius and Hydarnes II.