Themistocles is an infantry and naval hero in Chronicles: Battle for Greece. He appears in the Battle for Greece campaign as a protagonist of most of the Athenian act, with the exception of the last scenario.
Infantry[]
Themistocles is an infantry hero. He has a unique model. As a hero, he cannot be converted and can regenerate health.
Campaign appearances[]
- The Battle of Marathon: Themistocles leads a small contingent of soldiers in Attica, and must recruit more troops for the coming battle by assisting the local towns and people. After amassing more troops, he and his contingent take part in the battle against the Persians at Marathon, assisting the main Greek army under Miltiades.
- Raise the Sails: After orchestrating the ostracism of his rival, Aristides, Themistocles must build up the Athenian navy while driving away pirates and the Aeginetans under Polycritus.
- Across the Wine-Dark Sea: Alongside Aristides, and the Spartans under Pausanias, Themistocles leads the allied Greek army in a raid on the Achaemenid satrapy of Cyprus, liberating the Cypriot towns from Persian rule.
- Wrath of the Regent: Alongside Aristides, he leads the Athenian forces besieging Byzantium, and must take the city before the Spartans under Pausanias.
Warship[]
Themistocles is also a hero warship, which has a unique model. As a hero, it cannot be converted and can regenerate health. It is a Monoreme-like unit without a charged attack.
Campaign appearances[]
- The Hot Gates: He is one of the three Greek naval leaders at the Battle of Artimisium, alongside Aristides and Polycritus.
- Divine Salamis: Alongside Aristides and Polycritus, he leads the allied Greeks to break the Persian blockades at Salamis, leading the fleet alongside Polycritus.
- The Fruits of Empire: Themistocles oversees the consolidation of the Delian League under Athenian rule, putting down the rebellions of disaffected Greek poleis, including Naxos, Carysos, and Andros.
- Blood and Gold: Several of the Elite Warships built at Ephesus are modified Themistocles' Warship.
Dialogue[]
History[]
Themistocles was an Athenian politician and general of the late 6th and early 5th centuries BC, and one of the leaders of Athens during its Golden Age. Born to a family of modest means, to a non-Athenian mother, he was one of a new breed of non-aristocratic politicians who rose to prominence in the early years of the Athenian democracy. A populist, he was often at odds with the Athenian nobility, but had the support of the lower classes, and was elected archon in 493 BC. As archon, he advocated the strengthening of Athenian naval power, a recurring theme in his political career, and would fight at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC, where he may have been one of the ten Athenian strategoi ('generals') leading the allied Greek forces. Despite his role in pushing back the Persian invasions of Greece, and the strengthening of Athenian power in the Delian League, he later lost favor in Athens, and was forced to flee to Asia Minor, where he joined the service of the Achaemenid Emperor Artaxerxes.
Trivia[]
- The figure in the sail of the ship form of Themistocles is that of Karkinos.
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