Themistocles
c. 524 BCE–c. 459 BCE · Athens
Themistocles (c. 524-c. 459 BCE) was an Athenian statesman and general, not a literary author, who rose to prominence in the early democracy of Athens. He is best known for persuading Athens to build a strong navy and for his leadership at the naval Battle of Salamis (480 BCE), a decisive Greek victory over the Persian invasion. Later falling out of favor, he ended his life in exile in the Persian Empire.
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AthensAttica (Greece)
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About Athens
The intellectual capital of the Greek world, where Socrates questioned in the agora and four great schools—Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa, and Epicurus' Garden—took root within a single square mile.
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Themistocles’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Aeschylus, Anaxagoras, Sophocles, Euripides, Antiphon, Socrates, Prodicus, Democritus, Thucydides, Critias
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