It is 480 BCE and the mighty Persian Empire, continuing its long march of conquest, strikes westward into the free city-states of Greece. Led by the capricious despot Xerxes the Great, its irresistible army seeks to overcome a different kind of foe that awaits them in the waters off Artemisium in Northern Greece. Onboard a Greek trireme, a young Athenian marine holds fast to his certainties of love and honor and the memory of his father. In the maelstrom...