Although heavily outnumbered, the Greeks were persuaded by Athenian general who to bring the Persian fleet to battle again, in the hope that a victory would prevent naval operations against the Peloponnese?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D. Themistocles
- Step 1: Although heavily outnumbered, the Greeks were persuaded by Athenian general Themistocles to bring the Persian fleet to battle again, in the hope that a victory would prevent naval operations against the Peloponnese. Answer: Themistocles. Why not the others: "Pericles" led democratic Athens decades later during its 5th-century BC Golden Age; "Solon" was an archaic constitutional reformer who lived more than a century before Salamis; "Ephialtes" was a democratic reformer who stripped the aristocratic Areopagus council of power in 462 BC.
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