Andrew Robert Burn
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Visiting Professor, A College Year in Athens, Inc., 1969β72. Reader in Ancient History, University of Glasgow, 1965β69. Author of Persia and the Greeks and others.
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Themistocles was an Athenian politician and naval strategist who was the creator of Athenian sea power and the chief saviour of Greece from subjection to the Persian empire at the Battle of Salamis in 480 bce. Themistoclesβ father, Neocles, came of the aristocratic Lycomid family and was not poor,β¦
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