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Island/naval-battle setting where Jiang presents Themistocles as forcing and baiting the decisive fight.
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Salamis
Island/naval-battle setting where Jiang presents Themistocles as forcing and baiting the decisive fight.
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Jiang says Xerxes could have won by avoiding naval confrontation and exploiting Sparta’s Helot weakness, but imperial arrogance made him seek Salamis.
diagnosis
Themistocles and the Athenian trireme exploit Greek naval design and head-on Persian mistakes to scatter the Persian navy.
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Themistocles is presented as forcing a battle at Salamis by threatening Athenian withdrawal and then deceiving Xerxes into attacking the Greek navy.
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Jiang argues Xerxes chose Salamis from a desire for remembered greatness over the safer strategy of starving out the Greeks.
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The lecture frames Salamis as the point where the Persian army had already won the war but the Persian navy lost it by fighting in a narrow strait against heavier Greek ships.
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"...a major confrontation. And this confrontation is called the Battle of Salamis. Okay? The Battle of Salamis. And as I where is Salamis? Um..."
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"...risk our navy. And so this leads to the Battle of Salamis which ever again forever changed the course of human history. All right?..."
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"Okay? So he writes about the Battle of uh uh Thermopylae. Okay? And again at this point in his history the war is over...."
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"He's actually the guy who proposed that Athens build a navy. Um Athens discovered a silver mine and they used all the silver to..."
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"...So what's going to happen is the war the battle of Salamis is lost. And but you know the Persians still have this huge..."
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"...And the Greeks, the Greek navy was on an island called Salamis. Okay? Salamis. And everyone was freaking out. Okay? And what the Spartans..."
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"...Xerxes, oh, great king, the entire Greek navy is stuck in Salamis."
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"...send his entire navy, okay, to destroy the Greek navy at Salamis. And his generals were like, don't do that, man. That's a risk..."
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"...So he sends his entire force, about a thousand ships, to Salamis. And Salamis, it's, it's a straight, okay? It's very narrow. So the..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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Greek history begins with geography, but it ends here as a theory of abundance, blocked status, and pointless war: when the line stops moving, the young do not overthrow the old order directly.
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