the personality im studying is xerxes. Not much of character you can 'love'.
He's portrayed by the Greek sources mostly as rash, arrogant and foolish and by the Persian insciptions as great like his father Darius but really its just a clone of the inscriptions hi sfather made and can be...
I dont know about the rest of you but i might make a point of the difference of the two states as sparta was the land power and made its impact on the battlefield while athens was the sea power and used logistics/cunning and good use of their 200 triremes.
As a point id say that athens was...