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The 22 pages that link to Themistocles, each with the reason it gives.

• Greco-Persian WarsRelated: His fleet-building strategy helped make the Greek victory at Salamis possible.

• Delian LeagueRelated: The naval strength he helped build underpinned Athens’s later leadership of the league.

• Battle of SalamisRelated: His strategy helped draw the Persian fleet into the narrow waterway.

• Persian EmpireRelated: His strategy at Salamis helped defeat the Persian fleet in 480 BCE.

• PericlesRelated: His naval policies built strategic foundations later central to Pericles’ Athens.

• TriremeRelated: His policy helped build the fleet that fought at Salamis.

• Battle of PlataeaRelated: His naval strategy complemented the land victory achieved by the Greek alliance at Plataea.

• PiraeusRelated: His naval strategy helped make Piraeus central to Athens’s power.

• Battle of ThermopylaeRelated: His fleet fought at nearby Artemisium during the land defense.

• Second Persian invasion of GreeceRelated: His strategy helped bring the Greek fleet to Salamis, where it defeated Xerxes’ navy.

• Athenian navyRelated: His policy helped turn silver-mine revenue into a large fleet before Salamis.

• HistoriesRelated: Herodotus credits his counsel with shaping the Greek response at Salamis.

• OstracismRelated: His ostracism around 471 BCE removed a leading architect of Athenian sea power.

• Artemisia I of CariaRelated: Herodotus relates that he admired Artemisia’s conduct at Salamis and later sought a reward for capturing her.

• Greek triremeRelated: His policy helped Athens build the fleet that made triremes central to its defense.

• Simonides of CeosRelated: His generation’s Persian War victories supplied subjects for Simonides’ commemorative poetry.

• Artaxerxes IRelated: Ancient tradition connects his exile and service to the Persian court with Artaxerxes.

• Battle of ArtemisiumRelated: His advocacy of Athenian sea power helped make the Greek fleet a major force.

• Leonidas IRelated: His naval strategy complemented Leonidas’s land defense at Thermopylae.

• Salamis IslandRelated: His naval policy and strategy shaped the Greek victory fought beside the island.

• Athens in the 5th century BCRelated: His naval policy helped make Athens a sea power after the Persian invasion.