Themistocles and the Athenian trireme exploit Greek naval design and head-on Persian mistakes to scatter the Persian navy.
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Themistocles
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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"Okay? So he writes about the Battle of uh uh Thermopylae. Okay? And again at this point in his history the war is over...."
"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..."
"They have no more mobility. And so what will happen next is that the so yeah the Athenians destroy the Persian navy. What happened..."
"...defend Sparta. There was one Athenian general. Okay? His name is Themistocles. Themistocles. And he said, you know what? That's great for you guys...."
"...no way we can beat them in a naval battle. And Themistocles says, we either fight the Persians now and achieve eudaimonia, or we,..."
"...book histories and it has to do with the Athenian leader Themistocles okay so this is a year 480 BC and in the year..."
"...Persian invasion and they cannot come to an agreement so what Themistocles does is he sends a spy a servant to the king of..."
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