The Maritime History Podcast

In Part II of our look at the naval Battle of Artemisium, we finally get into the heat of battle. The episode is bookended by some trickery and psychological warfare courtesy of the inimitable Themistocles. In the middle, though, we discuss the 3 separate days and 3 separate engagements that made up the battle as a whole. Tactics, planning, chaos: we've got it all today. We've got yet another storm that makes an appearance, and this time it takes 200 Persian ships with it, making them victims of the infamous Hollows of Euboea. Episode Show Notes Website | Patreon | Twitter | Instagram Episode Sources Aeschylus, The Persians. Bradford, Ernle, Thermopylae: The Battle for the West (1980). Hale, John R., Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy (2009). Hammond, N.G.L., A History of Greece to 322 BC (1967). Herodotus, The Histories (Robert Strassler, Ed., Andrea Purvis, Transl., 2007). Holland, Tom, Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West