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Themistocles — The man who turned silver into a fleet

Film 6 5th century BC Athens / Salamis / Magnesia

A man from the gymnasium outside the city walls, instead of distributing the discovered silver, turned it into two hundred ships and stopped the empire in a narrow sea.

The video and narration are in Japanese. The text for each scene can be read in the language of this page.

Voice Speed

From the gymnasium outside the city walls

Video Version

16:9 version 5 min 31 sec

Story Flow

Gymnasium outside the city walls (the place for illegitimate children) → Cannot play the lyre, but can make a city great → Sleepless nights → Instead of distributing the silver of Laurion, build two hundred ships → The oracle of the wooden wall → Evacuate the city → Sicinnus's false message → The narrow sea of Salamis → A shadow amidst victory → 190 ostraca, in fourteen hands → A suppliant at the hearth and a letter to the enemy king → Three cities for bread, wine, and fish.

The One Piece That Appears at the End

Silver coin of Magnesia (ΘΕΜΙΣΤΟΚΛΕΟΣ) The earliest confirmed coin on which a real individual had his own name inscribed. ⚠ Do not assert that it is the "first portrait coin" (follow the [Needs Verification] note in the fact ledger).

References

Herodotus, *Histories*, Books 7–8; Thucydides, *History of the Peloponnesian War*, Book 1; Aristotle, *Constitution of the Athenians*, 22.7; Plutarch, *Life of Themistocles*. Traditions are handled with phrases like "it is said that...".

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