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The Athenian politician and general Themistocles has …
Years: 463BCE - 463BCE
The Athenian politician and general Themistocles has lived at Argos for some years, during which democracy has made headway in some parts of the Peloponnese.
Sparta then accused him of complicity in alleged intrigues with Persia.
Themistocles' alleged association with the discredited Pausanias, combined with his status as a suspected Persian sympathizer, led to a charge of treason, for which he was condemned to death in 464 BCE.
Making a sensational escape to Ephesus and thence to the Persian court, he began to learn Persian.
At the Achaemenid court, Themistocles met with Artaxerxes and received fiefs from the king in exchange for his loyalty, and retires to …
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- Magnesia on the Maeander, Greek City-State of
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Years: 463BCE - 463BCE
Locations
People
Groups
- Greece, classical
- Magnesia on the Maeander, Greek City-State of
- Peloponnesian League (Spartan Alliance)
- Achaemenid, or First Persian, Empire
- Athenian Empire (Delian League)
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Regions
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