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A Victor of Salamis

By William Stearns Davis

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Cover: Artemisia at the Battle of Salamis (19th century), oil on canvas by Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805-1874) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1874)

Through the eyes of a young Athenian, the Persian invasion of Greece under Xerxes unfolds, from Thermopylae to the great sea battle at Salamis. William Stearns Davis's 1907 novel is a vivid, well-researched adventure.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: Glaucon the Beautiful
  2. 2: The Athlete
  3. 3: The Hand of Persia
  4. 4: The Pentathlon
  5. 5: Hermione of Eleusis
  6. 6: Athens
  7. 7: Democrates and the Tempter
  8. 8: On the Acropolis
  9. 9: The Cyprian Triumphs
  10. 10: Democrates Resolves
  11. 11: The Panathenæa
  12. 12: A Traitor to Hellas
  13. 13: The Disloyalty of Phormio
  14. 14: Mardonius the Persian
  15. 15: The Lotus-Eating at Sardis
  16. 16: The Coming of Xerxes the God-King
  17. 17: The Charming by Roxana
  18. 18: Democrates’s Troubles Return
  19. 19: The Commandment of Xerxes
  20. 20: Thermopylæ
  21. 21: The Three Hundred—and One
  22. 22: Mardonius Gives a Promise
  23. 23: The Darkest Hour
  24. 24: The Evacuation of Athens
  25. 25: The Acropolis Flames
  26. 26: Themistocles Is Thinking
  27. 27: The Craft of Odysseus
  28. 28: Before the Death Grapple
  29. 29: Salamis
  30. 30: Themistocles Gives a Promise
  31. 31: Democrates Surrenders
  32. 32: The Stranger in Trœzene
  33. 33: What Befell on the Hillside
  34. 34: The Loyalty of Lampaxo
  35. 35: Moloch Betrays the Phœnician
  36. 36: The Reading of the Riddle
  37. 37: The Race to Save Hellas
  38. 38: The Council of Mardonius
  39. 39: The Avenging of Leonidas
  40. 40: The Song of the Furies
  41. 41: The Brightness of Helios