Qualla: Battle of Salamis https://qualla.com/battle-of-salamis 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/8/z/battle-of-salamis-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Salamis https://qualla.com/battle-of-salamis Battle of Salamis: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-salamis/ Photo credit Edmund Ollier Publication date 1882, Public domain. There is a young man fighting in the Greek line whose name we know. He is a hoplite from the deme of Eleusis, in his early forties, and his brother died at Marathon a decade ago. Eight years from this autumn morning, he will write a play about what he is seeing. His name is Aeschylus. The Persians, first staged in Athens in 472 BC and the oldest surviving European drama, is the only one of his that takes its story not from myth but from a battle he survived. Salamis is unusual among ancient battles because we have testimony from a man who held a spear in it.

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/z/battle-of-salamis-wp/sw8z-battle-of-salamis-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Salamis: The Golden Throne https://qualla.com/battle-of-salamis/ Photo credit Unknown artist, Public domain. Xerxes did not intend to fight from a ship. From the slopes of Mount Aigaleo, on the Attic shore looking south across the narrow strait, he had servants carry up a golden throne and writing materials. Scribes stood ready to record the names of his bravest captains. The king of ki...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/z/battle-of-salamis-wp/sw8z-battle-of-salamis-the-golden-throne.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Salamis: Themistocles' Trap https://qualla.com/battle-of-salamis/ Photo credit John Steeple Davis, Public domain. The Greek captains had spent days arguing. The Peloponnesians wanted to fall back to the Isthmus of Corinth and fight where their armies could support the fleet. Themistocles, the Athenian, insisted on Salamis - the narrow waters between the island and the Attic mainland, where P...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/z/battle-of-salamis-wp/sw8z-battle-of-salamis-themistocles-trap.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Salamis: The Strait That Drowned an Empire https://qualla.com/battle-of-salamis/ Photo credit Charles Oliver Murray, Public domain. What happened in the channel that morning is described by Aeschylus in lines that read like a man watching from a low deck. The Persian ships came on in disordered ranks, jamming each other in the narrow water, oars fouling. The Greek triremes, lighter and better-trained for ramm...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/z/battle-of-salamis-wp/sw8z-battle-of-salamis-the-strait-that-drowned-an-empire.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Salamis: The Anchorage Beneath the Water https://qualla.com/battle-of-salamis/ Photo credit The Department of History, United States Military Academy, Public domain. On 17 March 2017, Greek archaeologists announced they had located the partially submerged anchorage where the Greek fleet had moored before the battle - on the Salamis shore at the Ambelaki-Kynosaurus site, almost exactly where Herodotus places it. Stone harbor works lie just bel...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/z/battle-of-salamis-wp/sw8z-battle-of-salamis-the-anchorage-beneath-the-water.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Salamis: What Survived https://qualla.com/battle-of-salamis/ Photo credit Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879, Public domain. Xerxes withdrew, fearing the Greeks would sail north and burn the bridges over the Hellespont, leaving him stranded in Europe. He took the bulk of his army home. The Persian general Mardonius stayed in Greece with the elite infantry, and was killed the following year at Plataea. ...

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