Editing Themistocles (section)

==== Spring–Summer 479 BC ====
However, as happened to many prominent individuals in the Athenian democracy, Themistocles's fellow citizens grew jealous of his success, and possibly tired of his boasting.<ref name = h332 /><ref name = PT22>Plutarch, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0182;query=chapter%3D%23238;layout=;loc=Them.%2021.1 Themistocles, 22]</ref> It is probable that in early 479&nbsp;BC, Themistocles was stripped of his command; instead, [[Xanthippus]] was to command the Athenian fleet, and Aristides the land forces.<ref name = h332 /><ref name = DSXI27>Diodorus [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0084&layout=&loc=11.27 XI, 27]</ref> Though Themistocles was no doubt politically and militarily active for the rest of the campaign, no mention of his activities in 479&nbsp;BC is made in the ancient sources.<ref>Lazenby, p. 209</ref> In the summer of that year, after receiving an Athenian ultimatum, the Peloponnesians finally agreed to assemble an army and march to confront Mardonius, who had reoccupied Athens in June.<ref>Herodotus [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126;query=chapter%3D%231465;layout=;loc=9.10.1 IX, 6–9]</ref> At the decisive [[Battle of Plataea]], the Allies destroyed the Persian army, while apparently on the same day, the Allied navy destroyed the remnants of the Persian fleet at the [[Battle of Mycale]].<ref name = h358 /> These twin victories completed the Allied triumph, and ended the Persian threat to Greece.<ref name =h358>Holland, pp. 358–359</ref>