Themistocles will always be lauded as the great general who pushed the Persians out of Greece with his strategy in the Battle ...

The Battle of Salamis took place in 480 BC, and is so called because it was fought by the island of Salamis, near Athens. What it really teaches us, or taught me, is about what national identity ...

In 480 BC, Persian forces led by King Xerxes I burned down the city of Athens, as well as the Acropolis, in what is called “the Persian Destruction of Athens.” The destruction of the great city took ...

In the late summer of 480 BC, almost the entire population of Athens ... Just across the water, off the coast of the island of Salamis, the Athenian navy and its allies congregated.

However, as his vast armada sailed into the narrow straits between Salamis and the coast ... packed with Greek crewmen singing battle songs. Themistocles had forced them to fight.

The Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive battles of world history, in which the small city-states of ancient Greece joined forces to take on the mighty Persian Empire. After the defeat and death ...