Battle of Salamis
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The Battle of Salamis (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell; Template:Lang-grc) was a naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states under Themistocles and the Persian Empire under King Xerxes in 480 BC which resulted in a decisive victory for the outnumbered Greeks. The battle was fought in the straits between the mainland and Salamis, an island in the Saronic Gulf near Athens, and marked the high-point of the second Persian invasion of Greece.
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Ancient sources
- Herodotus, The Histories Perseus online version
- Aeschylus, extract from The Persians
- Ctesias, Persica (excerpt in Photius's epitome)
- Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
- Ephorus, Universal History
- Plutarch, Themistocles
- Cicero, On the Laws
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