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The Battle of Salamis: Wooden Walls and the Fate of Greece
In 480 BCE, the Persian king Xerxes marched on Greece with an army so vast that ancient sources claimed it drank rivers dry. Athens lay in ashes, and the Greek alliance seemed doomed. But the Athenian leader Themistocles had a plan — a naval gambit that would turn the narrow straits of Salamis into a killing field. This episode of Ancient Greece digs into the battle itself: the triremes, the rowers, the feint that lured the Persian fleet into the trap, and the decisive moment when the Greek ships shattered the invaders' morale. We walk through the positions of the fleets, the role of the…
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