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Mardonius
Achaemenid military commander during Greco-Persian Wars (died 479 BC)
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Lived -600–-479, aged 121
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Updated 2026-06-08
The Persian commander who burned Athens to the ground twice — and then died trying to hold Greece.
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Mardonius led the first Persian invasion of Greece with early wins, but a storm off Mount Athos wrecked his fleet and cost him so many men that Darius stripped him of command. Xerxes brought him back for the second invasion. In 480 and 479 BC, Mardonius drove the Persian army through Athens and razed it. He didn't get far after. On August 27 or 28, 479 BC, he was killed at the Battle of Plataea, and the second invasion collapsed with him.
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