A Victor of Salamis
Credits: William Stearns Davis (author)
Summary
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. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI assistant, from the text of the book.
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- Urdu · سلامیس کا فاتح · machine translation · 11 of 41 chapters
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Chapters (41)
- 1. Glaucon the Beautiful
- 2. The Athlete
- 3. The Hand of Persia
- 4. The Pentathlon
- 5. Hermione of Eleusis
- 6. Athens
- 7. Democrates and the Tempter
- 8. On the Acropolis
- 9. The Cyprian Triumphs
- 10. Democrates Resolves
- 11. The Panathenæa
- 12. A Traitor to Hellas
- 13. The Disloyalty of Phormio
- 14. Mardonius the Persian
- 15. The Lotus-Eating at Sardis
- 16. The Coming of Xerxes the God-King
- 17. The Charming by Roxana
- 18. Democrates’s Troubles Return
- 19. The Commandment of Xerxes
- 20. Thermopylæ
- 21. The Three Hundred—and One
- 22. Mardonius Gives a Promise
- 23. The Darkest Hour
- 24. The Evacuation of Athens
- 25. The Acropolis Flames
- 26. Themistocles Is Thinking
- 27. The Craft of Odysseus
- 28. Before the Death Grapple
- 29. Salamis
- 30. Themistocles Gives a Promise
- 31. Democrates Surrenders
- 32. The Stranger in Trœzene
- 33. What Befell on the Hillside
- 34. The Loyalty of Lampaxo
- 35. Moloch Betrays the Phœnician
- 36. The Reading of the Riddle
- 37. The Race to Save Hellas
- 38. The Council of Mardonius
- 39. The Avenging of Leonidas
- 40. The Song of the Furies
- 41. The Brightness of Helios