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Battle of Salamis

Salamis Monument by Achilleas Vasileiou 2006

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Darius of Persia from a C17th print

Darius from a Greek vase

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Xerxes I from his tomb at NaqsheRustam c. 465 BC

Audience Scene of Darius or Xerxes , National Museum of Iran Tehran

Greek ships moving to ram at Salamis

Battle of Salamis by Wilhelm von Kaulbach 1868, Bayerischer Landtag

Monument for the Battle of Salamis, Kynosoura peninsula, Salamis Island, Greece, by sculptor Achilleas Vasileiou

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“Ship dashed against ship, till the Persian Army dead strewed the deep like flowers”

Serpent Column, a monument to their alliance, dedicated by the victorious Allies in the aftermath of Plataea; now at the Hippodrome in Istanbul

Statue from Temple of Poseidon at Sounion showing damage during Persian invasion

The Athenian rejoicing after the naval battle of Salamis By Fernand Cormon C19th

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Death of the Persian admiral Ariabignes (a brother of Xerxes) early in the battle; illustration from Plutarch's Lives for Boys and Girls c. 1910