The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece--and Western CivilizationSimon and Schuster, 2004 - 294 sider A scholar who has reexamined the original sources for this stirring narrative presents an exciting, perceptive work of military history and a shrewd analysis of the cultural differences between and within the contending Persian and Greek factions. |
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Piraeus | 1 |
Artemisium | 11 |
Salamis | 141 |
Salamis Straits Afternoon | 175 |
Salamis Straits Evening | 191 |
Phaleron | 211 |
Andros | 227 |
Susa | 243 |
Acknowledgments | 281 |
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Acropolis Adimantus Aegean Aegina Aeginetan Aeschylus allies Ambelaki Bay Aminias Anatolia ancient Andros archers Ariabignes Aristides Artemis Artemisia Artemisium Athenian trireme Athens Athens's attack Attica barbarians battle of Salamis boats bronze captain Carians century B.C. city-states coast commanders Corinth Corinthian crew Cynosura Darius deck Demaratus doubt Egyptians enemy Euboea eunuch Eurybiades exile fight force fought gods Greece Greek fleet Greek navy Greek ships Greek triremes Halicarnassus harbor Hellespont Hermotimus Herodotus Herodotus's infantrymen Ionians island Isthmus King King's knew land mainland Marathon Mardonius marines miles narrow naval battle night oars Oxford Paloukia Peloponnese Peloponnesian perhaps Persian army Persian fleet Persian navy Persian ships Phaleron Bay Phoenician triremes Phoenicians Piraeus Plutarch Polycritus probably Psyttaleia rowers sailed sailors Salamis straits Saronic Gulf says September shore sians Sicinnus Sidon Spartan squadron stern Tetramnestus Themistocles Thermopylae Timotheus of Miletus triremes Troezen turned University Press victory warships Xerxes