{"id":96,"date":"2005-09-12T16:29:08","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T16:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2005\/09\/12\/the-battle-of-salamis\/"},"modified":"2008-11-01T08:56:13","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T15:56:13","slug":"the-battle-of-salamis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2005\/09\/12\/the-battle-of-salamis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of Salamis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-96\">\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"><strong>Title: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0743244516\/qid=1126567460\/sr=2-2\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2\/102-9495726-4240950?v=glance&amp;s=books\" target=\"NewWindow\">The Battle of Salamis<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"><strong>Author: <\/strong>Barry Strauss<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"><strong>Paperback: <\/strong>320 pages<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Simon &amp; Schuster (June 28, 2005)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"><strong>ISBN: <\/strong>0743244516<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\">The battle of Salamis was a great naval victory for the Athenian-allied navy over the Persian navy, ultimately saving the<br \/>\nAthenians from defeat and enslavement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\">This book is a very detailed account of the campaign with emphasis on the final naval engagement. It captures the risks taken by the Athenians, the tricks used to keep their alliance with other Greek city-states intact, and the ultimate strategy that led to their victory, even though they were outnumbered at one point by about 10 to 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-96\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 96);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-96\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-96\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: The Battle of Salamis Author: Barry Strauss Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Simon &amp; Schuster (June 28, 2005) ISBN: 0743244516 The battle of Salamis was a great naval victory for the Athenian-allied navy over the Persian navy, ultimately saving the Athenians from defeat and enslavement. This book is a very detailed account of the campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-1y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}