old professor voice*: now you young people might think the battle of salamis is something that occurred in the film "sausage party," ho ho This week's In Our Time is called The Battle of Salamis ...
There are many strong and powerful women, or femme fatales, in Greek mythology, such as Circe, Clytemnestra, Artemisia, and Medea.
The defeat of the Persian navy at Salamis in 480 was by no means the end of the war, but it was the decisive battle that made ultimate victory likely, if not inevitable. The final land battle ...
Her major claim to fame occurred during the battle of Salamis, which King Xerxes of Persia watched from his golden throne on the shore. Finding herself trapped between the deadly Greek triremes ...
Called "the Oracle of Palestine," he became bishop of Constantia (Salamis), Cyprus, and metropolitan of Cyprus in 367, although still continuing as superior of his monastery. His reputation was ...