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The Battle of Artemisium or Artemision was a series of naval engagements over three days during the second Persian invasion of Greece.The battle took place simultaneously with the land battle at Thermopylae, in August or September 480 BC, off the coast of Euboea and was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, including Sparta, Athens, Corinth and others, and the Persian Empire of ...
Themistocles appears to have been aiming to fight a battle that would cripple the Persian navy, and thus guarantee the security of the Peloponnesus. [51] Events of the Battle of Salamis. To bring about this battle, Themistocles used a cunning mix of subterfuge and misinformation, psychologically exploiting Xerxes' desire to finish the invasion ...
Instead, they bribed Themistocles to keep the fleet there, and Themistocles used some of his bribe to pay off Eurybiades (at least according to Herodotus). [3] The subsequent Battle of Artemisium was indecisive, and the Greeks removed their fleet to Salamis Island .
Before the Battle of Artemisium (480 BC) he threatened to sail away. According to the Suda , when Adeimantus called Themistocles a city-less man before the Battle of Salamis (because the Persians had destroyed Athens ), Themistocles responded: "Who is city-less, when he has 200 triremes?"
She personally commanded ships at the naval battle of Artemisium [5] and at the naval Battle of Salamis in 480 BC. She is mostly known through the writings of Herodotus , himself a native of Halicarnassus , who praises her courage and relates the respect in which she was held by Xerxes.
Decree of Themistocles, National Archaeological Museum of Athens, 13330. The Decree of Themistocles or Troezen Inscription is an ancient Greek inscription, found at Troezen, discussing Greek strategy in the Greco-Persian Wars, purported to have been issued by the Athenian assembly under the guidance of Themistocles. Since the publication of its ...
However, Themistocles argued in favour of an offensive strategy, aimed at decisively destroying the Persians' naval superiority. He drew on the lessons of Artemisium, pointing out that "battle in close conditions works to our advantage". [36] He eventually won through, and the Allied navy remained off the coast of Salamis. [37]
The subsequent Battle of Artemisium resulted in the capture of Euboea, bringing most of mainland Greece north of the Isthmus of Corinth under Persian control. [2] [3] However, the Athenians had evacuated the city of Athens by sea before Thermopylae, and under the command of Themistocles, they defeated the Persian fleet at the Battle of Salamis.