Persian wars: Greece and Persia, the opening rounds

Darius, Miltiades and the Battle of Marathon

Xerxes, Leonidas and the 300 Spartans, the battle of Thermopylae

Xerxes, Themistocles, and the battle of Salamis

Mardonius and the final victory of Greece: the battles of Plataea and Mycale

Peloponnesian war: outbreak, Pericles and the plague

Melos and Mytilene, Athens overreaches

Alcibiades, Nicias and Syracuse, Sparta sends a general

Arginousai, Aegospotomoi, Lysander and the bitter end

Punic wars: Rome and Carthage, the first Punic War

Second Punic war, Hannibal crosses the Alps, Lake Trasimene

Carthage triumphant the battle of Cannae, Fabius Maximus-Cunctato

Rome wins at last, Scipio Africanus and Zama

"Cartago delinda est", the thrid Punic war.