We're excited to highlight a particularly inaccessible piece of Athenian history!

While we're waiting for tonight's webinar on the Battle of Salamis, let's explore where its most famous participant may be buried! Take a look at this #THREAD, then head to https://skfb.ly/6V9rn 

You probably know that—eight years after he won the Battle of Salamis—Themistocles was exiled from Athens. After several stops, he ended up as the governor of the Achaemenid district of Magnesia on the Meander river, where he died in 459 & was honored with a heroön in its agora.

What you might not know is that, as early as the Peloponnesian War, we hear rumors that his bones were snuck back into Attica and reburied (Thuc. I.138.4-6). Soon after, these remains were placed in a large monument located just outside the walls in the Piraeus!

The location of this monument is a source of much debate, but one very interesting candidate is located on the end of the Akte Peninsula, unfortunately located within the walls of the Naval Command of the South Aegean!

Unstudied since the 1970s, archaeologists from the ASCSA visited the monument last week in preparation for tonight's webinar on the Battle of Salamis, and we're pleased to offer this digital tour of the monument!

Head to https://skfb.ly/6V9rn  to explore it yourselves!