Themistocles: The Rise and Fall of Athens's Naval Mastermind with Michael Scott

Themistocles is a name conjures up many adjectives and epithets - a visionary, an outsider, the architect of Athenian maritime success, and, ultimately, an exile who ended his days in among his once-enemies. Alongside ⁠Zeb Baker-Smith⁠, Editor of ⁠Aspects of History⁠, on the podcast today is Professor Michael Scott of the University of Warwick, academic, author and broadcaster. His biography of one of the most compelling and controversial figures of the ancient world observes a city’s political upheaval, Greece’s fight for survival against the invading Persians and that audacious gamble at Salamis.

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Themistocles: The Rise and Fall of Athens’s Naval Mastermind

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