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871 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter T
   A tomb called that of Themistocles existed in the Peiraeeus in the time of Pausanias (i. 1) : Pausanias mentions also a portrait of Themistocles in the Parthenon : he says, it appears that the sons of Themistocles returned to Athens, and dedicated the painting in the Parthenon in which Themistocles was represented : it was probaby an historical piece, in which Themistocles appeared as an actor. (26.29)

2. Plutarch, Lives (ed. Bernadotte Perrin) Them., chapter 32, section 5
   For the lineal descendants of Themistocles there were also certain dignities maintained in Magnesia down to my time, and the revenues of these were enjoyed by a Themistocles of Athens who was my intimate and friend in the school of Ammonius the philosopher. (14.74)

3. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter L
   ) The sons of Themistocles dedicated a statue to her on the Acropolis at Athens, because Themistocles had once ruled at Magnesia. (14.74)

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5 from Renaissance Materials

1. William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.)
   Coriolanus himself we cannot like, any more than a schoolboy can like Themistocles. (2.89)

2. Thomas Wilson, Wilson's Arte of Rhetorique (ed. G. H. Mair) section Book 3, subsection Of Fables.
   In like maner (quoth Themistocles) if you will chaunge officers, the hungrie flies will eate you vp one after another, whereas now you liue being but onely bitten, and like to haue no farthar harme, but rather much wealth and quietnesse hereafter, because thei are filled and haue enough, that heretofore suckt so much of your bloud. (2.61)

3. Thomas Wilson, Wilson's Arte of Rhetorique (ed. G. H. Mair) section Book 3, subsection The deuision of Memorie.
   As Themistocles, who had so good a memorie, that when one proffered to teach him the art of Memorie: nay by Sainct Marie (quoth he) teach me rather the arte of forgetting. (2.29)

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1 from The Tragedie of Coriolanus

1. William Shakespeare, Appendix: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) section CRITICISMS, subsection J. Middleton Murry
   Coriolanus himself we cannot like, any more than a schoolboy can like Themistocles. (2.82)

3 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter N, entry 22216
   His publications include ‘Fragments of Criticism,’ 1860, ‘Hannibal’ (historical drama), 1873, ‘Death of Themistocles and other Poems,’ 1881, ‘Byron,’ 1880, and ‘Carlyle,’ 1892 (‘English Men of Letters’ series), ‘Robert Burns,’ 1882, and ‘Francis Bacon,’ 1888-9. (7.18)

2. Walter Thornbury, A Narrative of its History, its People and its Places. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings from the Most Authentic Sources.: Old and New London: Volume 2 chapter 4, page 33
   Ventidius is wrote under one, Gadareus under another, and Themistocles under a man kneeling beside the car; Croesus, Midas, and Tantalus follow; Narcissus holds the horse of the first; over their heads, in the clouds, is Nemesis. (4.06)

3. London: Volume 2 (ed. Charles Knight) chapter 18, page 284
   Pennant thus describes the chief features of the designs: In the triumph of Riches, Plutus is represented in a golden car, and Fortune sitting before him, flinging money into the laps of people holding up their garments to receive her favours: Ventidius is wrote under one, Gadareus under another, and Themistocles under a man kneeling beside the car. (2.82)

1 from American Memory: California

1. Six months in California. By J.G. Player-Frowd page 2
   GREEK HISTORY from Themistocles to Alexander, in a Series of Lives from Plutarch. (3.85)

2 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. Margaret (Bayard) Smith, The first forty years of Washington society, potrayed by the family letters of Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith (Margaret Bayard) from the collection of her grandson J. Henley Smith page 260
   It was Themistocles (I believe) who said, My little son governs his mother, his mother governs me,—I govern Athens, Athens governs Greece, Greece governs the world. (4.62)

2. J. Thomas Scharf, The chronicles of Baltimore : being a complete history of “Baltimore town” and Baltimore city from the earliest period to the present time / by J. Thomas Scharf page 214
   Athens has dwindled to an unimportant village, but the fame of her Solon, her Demosthenes, her Themistocles, and many others distinguished in letters or in arms, remind her that she was once the freest and most enlightened nation of antiquity. (1.51)