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[edit] Editing

Edited the first 2 paragraphs for style so far. References needed. --Ste175 10:01, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Edited the rest for style. It would be good to check some of the facts (i.e. incorporate more sources), and add a picture to break up the text. Njál 11:28, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dates

Regarding a recent revert, changing Themistocles' date of birth from 525 to 523 BC is of course not vandalism, but more likely a matter of somebody having consulted a different source. I changed the dates from 525-460 BC to 524-459 BC and cited The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization, an abridged version of the Oxford Classical Dictionary which I assume gives the same dates. These are certainly reliable sources for classical studies and following them beats a pointless revert war. I suggest that discussion of other dates be confined to the footnote. --D. Webb 18:27, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

It was done in the way of a vandal; half-witted. There were two places to make the change in that one sentence and there was no comment on why the edit was made and no source, and so someone somewhere on the planet popped in and changed a 5 to a 3. I say a vandal. But the footnote would be great if indeed there is knowledge for a footnote. -BiancaOfHell 01:07, 21 December 2006 (UTC)