Themistocles

Family: Greeks · Role: Athenian statesman · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 18

Life events

Themistocles won a victory for the Greeks.(Book 1 · Chapter 36 · 📍 Salamis)
- “the victory which Themistocles the son of Neocles won for the Greeks”
The Achæans did not join Leonidas or fight under Themistocles during the invasion.(Book 7 · Chapter 6)
- With: Leonidas
- “the Achæans as far as we know did not join Leonidas at the pass of Thermopylæ, nor did they fight under Themistocles and the Athenians in the sea-fights off Eubœa and Salamis”
Leonidas and Themistocles expelled Xerxes from Greece.(Book 8 · Chapter 52 · 📍 Greece)
- With: Leonidas Xerxes
- “And after Miltiades Leonidas (the son of Anaxandrides) and Themistocles (the son of Neocles) expelled Xerxes from Greece”
Apollo's priestess rejected Themistocles's Persian spoils and ordered him to remove them.(Book 10 · Chapter 14 · 📍 Delphi)
- With: Apollo
- “when he asked if he should offer them inside the temple, the Pythian Priestess bade him at once take them away altogether.”

with Miltiades (Both had statues removed and replaced by statues of a Roman and a Thracian.) “for Miltiades and Themistocles have been removed for a Roman and a Thracian!”

parent: Neocles “the victory which Themistocles the son of Neocles won for the Greeks.”

child: Theophrastus “after him her husband Themistocles, and after his death her son Theophrastus”

enemies with Xerxes “But when Xerxes and the Medes invaded Greece, the Achæans as far as we know did not join Leonidas at the pass of Thermopylæ, nor did they fight under Themistocles and the Athenians in the sea-fights off Eubœa and Salamis”

parent: Neocles “Themistocles (the son of Neocles)”
enemies with Xerxes “And after Miltiades Leonidas (the son of Anaxandrides) and Themistocles (the son of Neocles) expelled Xerxes from Greece”
with Leonidas (They jointly expelled Xerxes from Greece.) “And after Miltiades Leonidas (the son of Anaxandrides) and Themistocles (the son of Neocles) expelled Xerxes from Greece, the latter by his two sea-fights, the former by the action at Thermopylæ.”
with Xerxes (Themistocles expelled Xerxes by his two sea-fights.) “And after Miltiades Leonidas (the son of Anaxandrides) and Themistocles (the son of Neocles) expelled Xerxes from Greece, the latter by his two sea-fights, the former by the action at Thermopylæ.”

with Apollo (interaction) “It is said also that Themistocles, when he went to Delphi, brought of the spoils of the Medes as a present to Apollo”
with Apollo (Apollo rejected the spoils brought by Themistocles.) “Put not in my temple the beautiful spoils of the Persians, send them home as quickly as possible.”

Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.