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

When I write these articles, I like to come up with a few quips. Something to ease the passage of information. I did think, “Salamis reads like the plural of salami but I couldn’t possibly ...

With his plan under threat, Themistocles was forced to take the initiative. By night he sent a messenger to the Persian king, Xerxes, informing him that the Greeks intended to flee. Unless he ...

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 ...