themistocles in English
noun
1
( circa 528–462 bc ) , Athenian statesman. He helped build up the Athenian fleet and defeated the Persian fleet at Salamis in 480.
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1. Themistocles fled and sought protection at the Persian court, where he was well received.
2. But the Athenians had evacuated the city by sea, and under Themistocles they defeated the Persian fleet at the Battle of Salamis.
3. En route Themistocles left inscriptions addressed to the Ionian Greek crews of the Persian fleet on all springs of water that they might stop at, asking them to defect to the Allied cause.