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Years: 480BCE - 480BCE
September
A force of two hundred and seventy-one ships under Themistocles awaits the Persian navy at Artemisium.
Themistocles, serving under a Spartan admiral (since Corinth and Aegina will not serve under an Athenian), conducts the main fleet to the narrow straits north of Euboea.
At sea, a detachment of two hundred Persian ships attempts to surprise the Greek fleet, but the Greeks, forewarned, engage the main Persian navy in an inconclusive battle.
Rounding Euboea, the Persian ships approach en masse down a coast with few beaches, and that night a typical north Aegean storm destroys the Persian squadron while the Greeks are safely in port, inflicting losses that probably, in the end, prove decisive.
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- Polytheism (“paganism”)
- Athens, City-State of
- Thebes, City-State of
- Greece, classical
- Persian people
- Sparta, Kingdom of
- Corinth, City-State of
- Thessalian League
- Peloponnesian League (Spartan Alliance)
- Boeotian League
- Achaemenid, or First Persian, Empire
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- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age Europe
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Greco-Persian Wars, Early
- Artemisium, Battle of
- Persian Invasion of Greece, Second
- Thermopylae, Battle of
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- Commerce
- Watercraft
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- Labor and Service
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- Mayhem
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- Prophecy
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Years: 480BCE - 480BCE
September
Locations
People
Groups
- Polytheism (“paganism”)
- Athens, City-State of
- Thebes, City-State of
- Greece, classical
- Persian people
- Sparta, Kingdom of
- Corinth, City-State of
- Thessalian League
- Peloponnesian League (Spartan Alliance)
- Boeotian League
- Achaemenid, or First Persian, Empire
Topics
- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age Europe
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Greco-Persian Wars, Early
- Artemisium, Battle of
- Persian Invasion of Greece, Second
- Thermopylae, Battle of
Commodoties
Subjects
- Commerce
- Watercraft
- Environment
- Labor and Service
- Conflict
- Mayhem
- Faith
- Government
- Technology
- Prophecy
Regions
Subregions