Plutarch's Life of Themistocles
By Plutarch (Greece (Athens))
The sharp-witted strategist who persuaded Athens to build the wooden walls of her navy and outsmarted Xerxes at the Battle of Salamis. Moral focus: Foresight, ingenuity, and the perils of political vanity.
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Lesson 1: The Sleepless Nights of Marathon
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The Sleepless Nights of Marathon
'The trophy of Miltiades will not let me sleep'; the ambitious youth foreseeing a greater Persian storm.
[Public Domain: Plutarch's Parallel Lives, translated by John Dryden / Thomas North.]
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Lesson 1: The Sleepless Nights of Marathon
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Lesson 2: The Silver Mines of Laurium & The Fleet
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Lesson 3: The Oracle of the Wooden Walls
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Lesson 4: Artemisium: Holding the Straits
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Lesson 5: The Abandonment of Athens
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Lesson 6: The Council of War: 'Strike, but Hear Me!'
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Lesson 7: The Cunning Message to Xerxes
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Lesson 8: The Battle of Salamis: The Triumph of the Triremes
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Lesson 9: Fortifying the Piraeus: The Clever Deception of Sparta
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Lesson 10: The Ingratitude of the Assembly & Ostracism
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Lesson 11: The Fugitive at the Persian Court
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Lesson 12: The Cup of Bull's Blood & The Immortal Memory
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