Ka kammala wannan jumla: Amma, kamar yadda ya faru da mutane da yawa da suka yi fice a mulkin demokraɗiyya na Atina, 'yan'uwansa mazauna garin Themistocles sun yi kishin nasararsa, kuma wataƙila sun gaji da fahariyarsa. Wataƙila a farkon shekara ta 479 kafin haihuwar Yesu, an cire Themistocles daga umurninsa; a maimakon haka, Xanthippus zai yi umurni da jiragen ruwa na Athenian, kuma Aristides sojojin ƙasa. Kodayake babu shakka Themistokles ya kasance mai siyasa da aikin soja don sauran yakin, ba a ambaci ayyukansa a 479 BC ba a cikin tsoffin tushe. A lokacin rani na wannan shekarar, bayan da suka karbi Athenian ultimatum, Peloponnesians a karshe sun yarda su tara sojojin da kuma tafiya don fuskantar Mardonius, wanda ya sake mamaye Athens a watan Yuni. A cikin yakin da aka yi na Plataea, Allies sun hallaka sojojin Farisa, yayin da a ranar da ta gabata, sojojin ruwa na Allied sun hallaka ragowar rundunar jiragen ruwa na Farisa a
Yaƙin Mycale. Wadannan nasarorin biyu sun kammala nasarar Allied, kuma sun kawo karshen barazanar Farisa ga Girka.