Author's Note 20
"You see that little boy,"
said Themistocles to his friends, "the fate of Greece is in his
hands. For be rules his mother, his mother rules me, I rule the
Athenians, and the Athenians rule the Greeks." What petty
creatures we should often find controlling great empires if we
traced the course of power from the prince to those who secretly put
that power in motion!