They send envoys to the spartans, reproaching them for the fact that they have not come to their aid. His histories, which provide an account in nine books of the conflict between the greece and asia from the middle of the sixth century b. In its first logos, we witness the naval engagement on the sea between aphetae and artemisium. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position.
Spartas last stance is one of the most important battles during the persian war and one of the great mysteries of ancient history. Herodotus presents the battle as though it occurred directly after the capture of athens, but nowhere. Farnell and goff provide a synopsis of the events to this point. How herodotus might have come to know about the battle of. According to herodotus, the athenians insist that their compatriots must send their fleets to salamis, a small island just opposite the athenian harbors.
Hide browse bar your current position in the text is marked in blue. And it so fell out that these seabattles were fought through the same days as the landbattles at thermopylae. Battle of salamis part of the grecopersian wars a romantic style painting. Xerxes once more rejects good advice, but this time it comes from one of the rare women in the narrative, queen artemisia of halicarnassus. Histories book 8 the battle of salamis summary course hero.
For other uses, see battle of salamis disambiguation. Xerxes, who came to the throne in 485, executed another invasion of greece on an enormous scale by both land and sea. Artemisias good fortune at the battle of salamis introduction. When the persian general mardonius learns that the athenians are not willing to come to terms, he mobilizes his army and marches to athens. Part of a complete english translation of herodotus. The next logos opens with a description of a serious quarrel between the greek admirals. The battle of salamis was a naval battle fought between an alliance of greek city states under. Herodotus book also contains ethnographic descriptions of the. Xerxes organized tours of the battlefield for members of his naval forces. Naumachia tes salaminos was a naval battle fought between an alliance of greek citystates under themistocles, and the persian empire under king xerxes in 480 bc. Phocis is overrun by the persians without a battle. But that neither the greeks nor his own men might discover his intent, he essayed to build a mole across to salamis,1 and made fast a line of. Ten years after the defeat of the persians at marathon in 490 b. Herodotus the persian wars godleybook viii wikisource, the.
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