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Themistocles and the Athenian trireme exploit Greek naval design and head-on Persian mistakes to scatter the Persian navy.
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Themistocles
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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...."
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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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"They have no more mobility. And so what will happen next is that the so yeah the Athenians destroy the Persian navy. What happened..."
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"...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...."
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"...no way we can beat them in a naval battle. And Themistocles says, we either fight the Persians now and achieve eudaimonia, or we,..."
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"...book histories and it has to do with the Athenian leader Themistocles okay so this is a year 480 BC and in the year..."
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"...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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