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en-wikipedia-org-4524		Achaemenid destruction of Athens - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2092	252	75	Part of the archaeological remains called Perserschutt, or "Persian rubble": remnants of the destruction of Athens by the armies of Xerxes. The Achaemenid destruction of Athens was accomplished by the Achaemenid Army of Xerxes I during the Second Persian invasion of Greece, and occurred in two phases over a period of two years, in 480-479 BCE. Athens fell a first time in September 480 BCE.[3] The small number of Athenians who had barricaded themselves on the Acropolis were eventually defeated, and Xerxes then ordered Athens to be torched.[4] The Acropolis was razed, and the Old Temple of Athena and the Older Parthenon destroyed:[5] Main troops of Achaemenid General Mardonius, according to Herodotus: Persians, Medians, Sakas, Bactrians and Indians,[11][12][13] illustrated in the list of troops by ethnicity, on the tomb of Xerxes I at Naqsh-e Rostam.[14] According to Plutarch and Diodorus, this was intended as a retribution for Xerxes' burning of the old Temple of Athena on the Acropolis in Athens (the site of the extant Parthenon) in 480 BC during the Persian Wars.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4524.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4524.txt