Themistocles

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• Elsewhere, he discusses the rhetorical exercises of his youth in which he was successively Xerxes and Themistocles, Octavius and Mark Antony: "they intoxicated me; I felt like Proteus."

  Fiction book (1996)

• The Themistocles is celebrated for his strategic leadership that led Athens to victory in the naval Battle of Salamis.

• -Themistocles, sir.

  Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

• According to Plutarch's Life of Aristides, a difference over this with his rival Themistocles was a dominating factor in the early part of Aristides' career.

  Academic text (1997)

• Here are three sources: Aeschylus' Persians, Herodotus' History, and Plutarch's Life of Themistocles, containing almost all the information we possess upon the portion of the battle dealt with in the source book.

  Academic text (1994)

• The civilization of Europe, America, and Australia exists today at all only because of the victories of civilized man over the enemies of civilization, because the victories stretch through the centuries from the days of Miltiades and Themistocles to those of Charles Martel in the eighth century and those of John Sobieski in the seventeenth century.

  Blog text (21)

• The Themistocles argued passionately for the expansion of the Athenian navy to counter the Persian threat.

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