Salamis Collection

Battle of Salamis
A Persian admiral, the bravest of the brothers of King Xerxes, is killed by the Greeks at the Battle of Salamis

Events / Greece
At SALAMIS, the Greek fleet of 370 vessels defeats the Persian fleet of 1000+, thus forcing Xerxes to cancel his plan to invade Greece

Piraeus, port of Athens looking west towards Salamis, Greece

Greek athletes competing in the martial art of Pankration. After the Pancrastinae statue of Pankratiasts in the Florentine Museum (now in the Uffizi). Pancraziasti del Museo Fiorentino

Clouded mother of pearl butterfly, Protogoniomorpha anacardii, upper side 1, under side 2. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

Sketchbooks of Lepidoptera, Margaret Fountaine
Various larvae and pupae watercolours with descriptions, 1933-35 Date: 1933

Siphnian Treasury. 530 BC. Greece
Siphnian Treasury. 530 BC. Relief depicting a scene of Troy War. Ajax and Achilles fighting Aeneas and Memnon. Archaeological Museum. Delphi. Greece

Salamis augustina vinsoni, Mauritaian mother of pearl butter
The last specimen of the Mauritaian mother of pearl butterfly ever seen, collected in 1757. Now considered to be extinct

Lady from Salamis, Greece
Lady from Salamis (the largest Greek island in the Saronic Gulf), Greece Date: circa 1905

Demetrius Poliorcetes, ruler of Macedonia, defeats Ptolemy in a naval battle off Salamis

Greece Salamis
The Gulf of Salamis, scene of the battle of 480 BCE when the Persian fleet of Xerxes was defeated by a Greek fleet, though outnumbered three to one

Greece / Eleusis / Salamis
Eleusis: sacred way from Athens to Eleusis, looking towards Salamis

Epiphanius of Salamis
Saint EPIPHANIUS bishop of Salamis in Cyprus, theologian and authority on devotion to Mary, greatly respected for his learning

Salamis - Persian Defeat
At SALAMIS, the Greek fleet of 370 vessels defeats the Persian fleet of 1000+, thus forcing Xerxes to cancel his plan to invade Greece

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