<Li> Themistocles serves as the protagonist of the 2014 film 300: Rise of an Empire, played by Australian actor Sullivan Stapleton . The film presents a highly fictionalized biography of Themistocles, who leads the Athenian fleet at the Battle of Salamis, by virtue of his status as the hero of Marathon, having devised the Athenians' winning offensive strategy in that battle, and personally loosing the arrow that fatally wounded Darius (neither of which historically occurred). The film also portrays him as having a brief liaison with Artemisia, who is fictitiously portrayed as the supreme commander of the Persian fleet . </Li> <Li> Themistocles is one of the main characters of the 1962 film The 300 Spartans, which presents the Battle of Thermopylae . In this movie, he is portrayed by Ralph Richardson . </Li> <Li> Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence quotes Themistocles in Lawrence of Arabia:' I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city .' </Li>

Describe the major ideas of the athenian way of life