July 20, 2004 at 5:00 pm PDT. the battle of salamis: the naval encounter that saved greece--and western civilization. By Barry Strauss (Simon & Schuster, 294 pages, $25) ...

The Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive battles of world history, in which the small city-states of ancient Greece joined forces to take on the mighty Persian Empire. After the defeat and ...

Essay; For Greece, the Battle of Salamis Never Ended On the 2,500th anniversary of a historic Athenian victory, rising tensions with Turkey remind Greece of its role as Europe’s gatekeeper ...

In 480 B.C., a powerful Persian armada attacked the Greek navy at Salamis, an island off Athens. In his book The Battle of Salamis, historian Barry Strauss makes a case that the Greeks' surprising ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Battle of Salamis, 480BC, often called one of the most significant battles in history, in which the Greek fleet defeated the Persians. Show more.

The Battle of Salamis — 2,495 years ago this month — was not the end of the war, but its result was decisive. It was the culmination of Themistocles’ strategic vision and resulted in the ...

In Athens, late in the summer of 480 B.C., an invading Persian army burned the wooden temple that crowned the Acropolis — where now stands the Parthenon, its successor temple. Fortunately, th… ...

The Battle of Salamis After the stunning victory at Salamis, Themistocles received a wreath of olive leaves in acknowledgement of his brilliance. A vote to decide who should receive the award for ...

The Battle of Salamis is considered one of the most significant naval battles in ancient history. It was the culmination of the Persian Wars , in which the ruler Darius began pushing the Persian ...

The Battle of Salamis happened during the earlier half of the Greco-Persian Wars, a string of conflicts between ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid, or Persian, Empire that historians say ...