There was a spy, at the very highest level, in the Greek command and he was about to send some vital intelligence to Xerxes, the Persian ruler. If this act of betrayal was ever uncovered it would mean his instant death.

Tag words: Battle of Salamis; Divine Salamis; spy; Xerxes; Persians; Pelopennes; Artemesium; Herodotus; Histories; Eurybiades; Athenians; Themistocles; Sicinnus; Joseph Cummins; Turn Around and Run Like Hell; Straits of Salamis; Michael Stevenson; Battlegrounds; Persian fleet; Ariabignes; Flavius Renatus Vegetius; De Re Militari; Victor David Hanson; Carnage and Culture; triremes; Psyttaleia; Aeschylus; The Persians;