Qualla: Battle of Artemisium https://qualla.com/battle-of-artemisium en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/b/w/battle-of-artemisium-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Artemisium https://qualla.com/battle-of-artemisium Battle of Artemisium: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-artemisium/ Photo credit Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879, Public domain. The wreck happened before the battle did. A north-easterly storm the Greeks called a Hellesponter caught the Persian fleet on the open coast of Magnesia, smashing perhaps a third of Xerxes' twelve hundred ships against the cliffs in a two-day gale. Sailors who had crossed the Hellespont on Persia's celebrated pontoon bridges drowned in sight of mountains. By the time the surviving fleet reached the strait off northern Euboea in late August or early September of 480 BC, the Greeks waiting for them had already received their first gift from the gods.

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/b/w/battle-of-artemisium-wp/swbw-battle-of-artemisium-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Artemisium: The Two-Front Trap https://qualla.com/battle-of-artemisium/ Photo credit Marco Prins, CC0. Themistocles had sketched the strategy on a map that did not yet exist as a strategy. Hold the narrows on land at Thermopylae. Hold the narrows at sea off Cape Artemisium. Force the colossal Persian war machine through bottlenecks where numbers could not unfold. The Allied fleet ...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/b/w/battle-of-artemisium-wp/swbw-battle-of-artemisium-the-two-front-trap.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Artemisium: Three Days in the Strait https://qualla.com/battle-of-artemisium/ Photo credit Unknown photographer. Two-dimensional Egyptian painting, 1st millennium BCE, Punt stele in Deir-el-Bahri., Public domain. On the first day the Allies waited as the Persians, still rebuilding from the storm, sent two hundred ships to circle Euboea and trap the Greek fleet from the south. A second tempest caught that detachment on the rocks of the island's eastern shore - a stretch of cliffs the Greek...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/b/w/battle-of-artemisium-wp/swbw-battle-of-artemisium-three-days-in-the-strait.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Artemisium: The Liaison Boat https://qualla.com/battle-of-artemisium/ Photo credit Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879, Public domain. Abronichus arrived from Thermopylae in a single ship with a single message. The pass had fallen. Leonidas was dead. The land wall had broken. Without that anchor, the fleet's position meant nothing - the Persians could now march into central Greece by road and sweep around behind...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/b/w/battle-of-artemisium-wp/swbw-battle-of-artemisium-the-liaison-boat.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Artemisium: What the Strait Holds Now https://qualla.com/battle-of-artemisium/ Photo credit Aegean_Sea_map_bathymetry-fr.svg: Eric Gaba (Sting - fr:Sting) derivative work: MinisterForBadTimes (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The cape juts from the northern tip of Euboea where the island swings closest to the Magnesian mainland, the channel between them narrow enough that a fishing skiff can cross in an afternoon. In 1928 Greek divers recovered a bronze statue of Zeus or Poseidon from the seabed near ...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/b/w/battle-of-artemisium-wp/swbw-battle-of-artemisium-what-the-strait-holds-now.mp3 0:06 5 full