🌊 In 480 BCE, a storm destroyed the pontoon bridges that Xerxes I needed to move his Persian army across the Hellespont.
Herodotus tells a remarkable story about what happened next: the furious king ordered the waters whipped and chains thrown into the sea. It is one of the most memorable episodes in his account of the Persian invasion of Greece, although modern historians also examine its literary and ideological meaning.
The Persians rebuilt the crossings using rows of ships, strong cables and a wooden roadway. Herodotus reports that the army crossed over seven days and nights, turning an extraordinary engineering project into a route from Asia into Europe.
This cinematic 3D CGI reconstruction explores the storm, the pontoon engineering and the story that became legendary.
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