Themistocles remained one of the most powerful politicians in Athens for the next decade, though little mention is made of him in the surviving records. He does not seem to have played a major ...

A copy of Themistocles' order to evacuate Athens was discovered on stone in the back of a Greek coffee house in 1959. It reads: "The Athenians and all foreigners who live in Athens shall send ...

Themistocles had an answer of his own: the wooden wall, he argued, was nothing less than the fleet they had spent these last few years hurriedly constructing. He won the day and then gave the ...