Themistocles had an answer of his own: the wooden wall, he argued, was nothing less than the fleet they had spent these last few years hurriedly constructing. He won the day and then gave the ...

After its victory over Leonidas' 300, the Persian Army under the command ... bases its strength on its fleet, led by admiral Themistocles. Themistocles is forced to an unwilling alliance with ...

A copy of Themistocles' order to evacuate Athens was discovered on stone in the back of a Greek coffee house in 1959. It reads: "The Athenians and all foreigners who live in Athens shall send ...

More than anything, Themistocles' ostracism was a sign of changing times. The new rising star of Athenian politics was Cimon, whose father, Militiades, had led the Greeks at Marathon. Unlike ...

Themistocles remained one of the most powerful politicians in Athens for the next decade, though little mention is made of him in the surviving records. He does not seem to have played a major ...