The Twitter Herodotus

8.11 But on a 1st signal the Greeks formed into a circle, rams out, & on a 2nd they attacked, taking 30 enemy ships before the battle ended.

8.12 That night there was a violent rainstorm. The corpses & wreckage from the battle drifted toward Aphetae and fouled the Persians' oars.

8.13 Meanwhile the ships tasked w/sailing around Euboea were driven against rocks by the storm. The god did this to level the playing field.

8.14 The next day 53 Attic ships brought this news to the Greeks. They put to sea against a squadron of the Persian fleet & destroyed them.

8.15 On the 3rd day at Artemisium--the 3 days of fighting at sea coincided w/the battles at Thermopylae--the Persians sailed out first.

8.16 In the battle that ensued the Persian ships fell foul of one another due to their number. The Persians lost more ships than the Greeks.

8.17 On Xerxes’ side, the Egyptians fought best. The Athenians were the best of the Greeks, and of them Clinias, who served on his own ship.

8.18 In the end, the Greeks had possession of the dead and the wrecks, but many of their ships were disabled. They resolved to retreat. 

8.19 Themistocles had a plan to get some of X’s allies to desert. 1st he bid the Greeks kill/cook lots of sheep lest the Persians get them.

8.20 The Euboeans had ignored an oracle warning them to evacuate their flocks when a foreigner yoked the sea. Now they were in trouble.