Athens, 472 BC. Actors dressed as Persians recite immortal verses in the sacred space of the Theater of Dionysus, in the shadow of the burned Acropolis. The Athenians remember.

Little Evandros asks. And Uncle Glaucus tells. How the Athenians abandoned their homes, just before the Great King, Xerxes, flooded the narrow streets of the city with his hordes of soldiers.

Who were Themistocles, Artemisia, Ameinias, and Pausanias, Massistius, and Aristodemus? How the Greeks saved their world, their families, their lives at Salamis and Plataea, changing – Glaucus did not know this then – the course of the river of history.