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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