Athens condemned Themistocles for treason, Persia gave him three cities, and his relatives buried his bones in Attica in secret

Themistocles led the Athenian fleet at Salamis. He was later ostracised, and Athens turned the ostracism into a death sentence for treason when Sparta accused him of dealing with Persia. He fled and settled in the Persian empire. Plutarch says that before he entered politics he owned less than three talents, and that the property seized after his flight came to 100 talents according to Theopompus or 80 according to Theophrastus. Thucydides says the Persian king gave him Magnesia, which yielded 50 talents a year, for bread, Lampsacus for wine and Myus for other provisions. He died at Magnesia at 65. Thucydides says disease killed him, though some said he took poison because he could not keep his promises to the king. A monument to him stood in the market of Magnesia. Thucydides says his relatives carried his bones home, as he had asked, and buried them in Attica without the Athenians knowing, because it was illegal to bury a man outlawed for treason there. Plutarch says his descendants still held honours at Magnesia in his own day, and that a descendant of the same name at Athens drew revenue from them. Livius says the tomb at Magnesia was still visible in the second century AD.