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Last we saw Themistocles, he was inscribing things on rocks. Meanwhile, the Athenians are Not Happy at the idea of everyone running away to the Isthmus to hang out there, instead of defending their colonies, but no one thinks they can actually stand up to Xerxes’ totally irresistable unstoppable war machine.

( Fight on the land, fight on the sea... Or just chat in councils some more. )

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Last time, on Plutarch’s Life Of Themistocles, Athens was evacuated, and it was very sad. (Insert ancient, anachronistic violin music here.) Now we’re back to gearing up for actually fighting the Persians on the sea, now that the Athenians are all hanging out definitively on the ships. (Yes, Plutarch has fudged the chronology here a bit.) Given the focus of this story, we’re going to see how Themistocles makes that happen.

( Politics and councils, oh boy! )