Editing Battle of Salamis (section)

===Greek fleet===
[[File:Trireme.jpg|thumb|Greek [[trireme]].]]
[[File:Greek Galleys.jpg|thumb|Fleet of triremes based on the full-sized replica ''[[Olympias (trireme)|Olympias]]'']]
Herodotus reports that there were 378 triremes in the Allied fleet, and then breaks the numbers down by city state (as indicated in the table).<ref>Herodotus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126&layout=&loc=8.42.1 VIII, 44–48]</ref> However, his numbers for the individual contingents only add up to 371. He does not explicitly say that all 378 fought at Salamis ("All of these came to the war providing triremes...The total number of ships...was three hundred and seventy-eight"),<ref name = VIII48/> and he also says that the Aeginetans "had other manned ships, but they guarded their own land with these and fought at Salamis with the thirty most seaworthy".<ref name = VIII46/> Thus it has been supposed that the difference between the numbers is accounted for by a [[garrison]] of 12 ships left at [[Aegina]].<ref>e.g., Macaulay, in a note accompanying his translation of Herodotus VIII, 85</ref> According to Herodotus, two more ships defected from the Persians to the Greeks, one before Artemisium and one before Salamis, so the total complement at Salamis would have been 373 (or 380).<ref>Herodotus  [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126;query=chapter%3D%231391;layout=;loc=8.81.1 VIII, 82]</ref>

According to the Athenian playwright [[Aeschylus]], who actually fought at Salamis, the Greek fleet numbered 310 triremes (the difference being the number of Athenian ships).<ref>Aeschylus, The Persians</ref> [[Ctesias]] claims that the Athenian fleet numbered only 110 triremes, which ties in with Aeschylus's numbers.<ref name = ctes/> According to [[Hypereides|Hyperides]], the Greek fleet numbered only 220.<ref name = Lee>Lee, [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/27/arts/27greek.html A Layered Look Reveals Ancient Greek Texts]</ref> The fleet was effectively under the command of Themistocles, but nominally led by the Spartan nobleman [[Eurybiades]], as had been agreed at the congress in 481 BC.<ref name = h226-7>Holland, pp.226–227</ref> Although Themistocles had tried to claim leadership of the fleet, the other city states with navies objected, and so Sparta (which had no naval tradition) was given command of the fleet as a compromise.<ref name = h226-7/>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!|City!!Number <br /> of ships|!!City!!Number <br /> of ships|!!City!!Number <br /> of ships
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| [[Athens]]<ref name = VIII44>Herodotus [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126;query=chapter%3D%231347;layout=;loc=8.43.1 VIII, 44]</ref> || 180 || [[Ancient Corinth|Corinth]]<ref name = VIII1>Herodotus [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126&layout=&loc=8.1 VIII, 1]</ref><ref name = VIII43>Herodotus [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126;query=chapter%3D%231346;layout=;loc=8.44.1 VIII, 43]</ref> || 40 || [[Aegina]]<ref name = VIII46>Herodotus [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126;query=chapter%3D%231349;layout=;loc=8.45.1 VIII, 46]</ref> || 30
|-
| [[Chalcis]]<ref name = VIII46/><ref name = VIII1/> || 20 || [[Megara]]<ref name = VIII1/><ref name = VIII45>Herodotus [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126;query=chapter%3D%231348;layout=;loc=8.44.1 VIII, 45]</ref> || 20 || [[Sparta]]<ref name = VIII43/> || 16
|-
| [[Sicyon]]<ref name = VIII43/> || 15 || [[Epidaurus]]<ref name = VIII43/> || 10 || [[Eretria]]<ref name = VIII46/> || 7
|-
| [[Ambracia]]<ref name = VIII45/> || 7 ||[[Troezen]]<ref name = VIII43/> || 5 || [[Naxos, Greece|Naxos]]<ref name = VIII46/> || 4
|-
| [[Leukas|Leucas]]<ref name = VIII45/> || 3 || [[Ermioni|Hermione]]<ref name = VIII43/> || 3 || [[Styra]]<ref name = VIII46/> || 2
|-
| [[Cythnus]]<ref name = VIII46/> || 1 (1) || [[Ceos]]<ref name = VIII46/> || 2 || [[Milos|Melos]]<ref name = VIII48>Herodotus [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126;query=chapter%3D%231351;layout=;loc=8.47.1 VIII, 48]</ref><ref name = VIII46/> || (2)
|-
| [[Siphnus]]<ref name = VIII48/><ref name = VIII46/> || (1) || [[Serifos]]<ref name = VIII48/><ref name = VIII46/> || (1) || [[Crotone|Croton]]<ref name = VIII47>Herodotus [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126;query=chapter%3D%231350;layout=;loc=8.46.1 VIII, 47]</ref> || 1
|-
| '''Total'''||'''371 ''' or '''378'''<ref name = VIII48/> ('''5''') || || || ||
|}
<sup> Plain numbers represent triremes; those indicated in parentheses are [[penteconter]]s (fifty-oared galleys)</sup>