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Themistocles
Athenian general who built the navy and defeated the Persians at Salamis.
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Themistocles shows up with force in LIX. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Proposed a dishonorable but advantageous plan to the Athenians, which they rejected.
Themistocles first appears in 0004 i.
In LIX: Proposed a dishonorable but advantageous plan to the Athenians, which they rejected.
Later, in XXXI: Athenian exile who fled to Darius and made lavish promises to attack Greece, but poisoned himself when unable to fulfill them.
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