Themistocles
c. 524 BCE–c. 459 BCE · Athens
Themistocles (c. 524-c. 459 BCE) was an Athenian statesman and general, not a literary author, who rose to prominence in the early democracy of Athens. He is best known for persuading Athens to build a strong navy and for his leadership at the naval Battle of Salamis (480 BCE), a decisive Greek victory over the Persian invasion. Later falling out of favor, he ended his life in exile in the Persian Empire.
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About Athens
Athens, the capital of Greece since 1834, was the leading intellectual centre of the classical Greek world. Socrates taught there, and four major philosophical schools took root in the city: Plato's Academy, founded around 387 BCE, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa of Zeno, and Epicurus' Garden. Under Hellenistic and Roman rule Athens remained a place of study that drew students from across the empire; in the 4th century CE the Christian writers Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus studied there together, while Neoplatonist teachers kept lecturing. Emperor Justinian's ban on pagan teaching of philosophy in 529 is generally taken to mark the end of the city's ancient history.
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Aeschylus, Anaxagoras, Sophocles, Euripides, Antiphon, Socrates, Prodicus, Democritus, Thucydides, Critias
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