New York, NY: Viking/ The Penguin Group, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. " "I cannot tune a harp or play a lyre, but I know how to make a small city great." The vision of the soldier-statesman Themistocles set his own small city- Athens- on a course of greatness when he persuaded his fellow citizens to build a fleet of warships known as triremes, the formidable dynamos at the heart of..... More