Aftermath of Thermopylae and artemisium

    Cards (5)

    • Themistocles interpretation of the oracle
      -wooden walls referred to ships
      -words divine salamis meant the enemy would be destroyed at salamis
    • How did Athens manage to be evacuated 

      Themistocles had six days to do this so he distributed money to generals to pay each man enough money for food for a month  
    • Why was athens evacuated after the battle of Thermopylae
      Agreed to before artemisium but put into effect when they realised the peloponnesian army had no intention of meeting the army in boetia
    • Which Greek states submitted after Thermopylae
      Boetia, plataeans and thespians fled to the peloponnese and had their cities burnt
    • Persian and Greek losses at Thermopylae
      -Greeks lost around 400
      -Persians lost 20,000 (probably exaggerated)