Teaser: Themistocles Pt 1 (Patreon)

This is a teaser of the bonus episode, "Themistocles Pt 1" found over on Patreon. Athens doesn’t wake up one day as the master of the Aegean. It gets argued into that future, one hard political fight at a time, and Themistocles is the kind of figure who can win those fights. We follow his rise from an obscure early life to the point where he becomes the driving force behind a maritime strategy…