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Introduction
The Persian-Greek war is depicted in 300 as a vicious battle between two powerful ancient civilisations. The Greeks division with the Persians and other ‘Barbarians’ is stretched out over a long period of time. The rift between them grows wider in time and is documented by Greek historian Herodotus. The divergence between these societies’ customs and characteristics will also be explored in this paper.
The first conflict between the Greeks and the Barbarians was blamed on the Phoenicians according to the Persians because they sailed into Argos which was a municipality of Greece and took the kings daughter hostage . This first affront on the Greeks set in motion a chain of insults. The Greeks are blamed for the next two offences that happen because twice they abducted Kings daughters once in Tyre a Phoenician port and then again in Colchis . The next offence occurs much later when Paris who was the son of Priam decided that because nobody else had been punished for stealing women he could get away with it too. He then preceded to steal Helen carrying her back to his fat...

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