It was at Ampelakia Bay where the famous Battle of Salamis occurred in 480 BC, during which the Greek ships defeated the Persian fleet of Xerxes.
Another historical reference is the modelling of the climactic battle on the Battle of Salamis.
For example, in a chapter on The Persians of Aeschylus, Mendels examines a number of alternative narratives of remembrance that were embedded in the population of Athens after the Battle of Salamis.
It is a full-length nude sculpture of the Greek dramatist Sophocles playing a lyre while leading the chorus of victory after the Battle of Salamis in 480 BCE.
The label shows a Salamina Warrior(Salamina fighter), a figure on an Ancient Greek trireme that was carved on a coin of that period, found during the excavation of the first factory in Piraeus in 1888.
525-510 BC; the abandonment of the "heraldic"-type didrachms and the Archaic tetrardachms (early "owls") of the polis of Athens apparently took place shortly after the Battle of Salamis, 480 BC.
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Adeimantus of Corinth, Greek commander at the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC