Teaser: Themistocles Pt 1 (Patreon)

About this episode

This episode teases the story of Themistocles and his rise to power in Athens during the Persian Wars.

This is a teaser of the bonus episode, "Themistocles Pt 1" found over on Patreon. Athens doesn’t wake up one day as the master of the Aegean. It gets argued into that future, one hard political fight at a time, and Themistocles is the kind of figure who can win those fights. We follow his rise from an obscure early life to the point where he becomes the driving force behind a maritime strategy that will redefine Athenian power during the Persian Wars. We dig into what our ancient sourc...

People in this episode

Host: Mark Selleck

Topics covered

• Athenian power
• maritime strategy
• Persian Wars
• political history
• Themistocles

Keywords

• Themistocles
• Athens
• Aegean
• maritime strategy
• Persian Wars
• political fight
• ancient history

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Athens

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