The Spartans were outflanked by the Persians who utilized a mountain pass shown to them by Ephialtes of Trachis allowing them to circumvent the Greek coalition . Had the sea battle of Salamis , led by the Athenian admiral Themistocles , been successful the Persian navy would have achieved the same result by landing Persian forces behind Greek lines .

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