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  • CHAPTER XLV - Proceedings of the Confederacy under Athens as head.-First formation and rapid expansion of the Athenian Empire

  • George Grote
  • Book:
    A History of Greece
    Published online:
    05 October 2010
    Print publication:
    01 April 2010, pp 390-472
    First published in:
    1849

  • Summary

    I have already recounted, in the preceding chapter, how the Asiatic Greeks, breaking loose from the Spartan Pausanias, entreated Athens to organise a new confederacy, and to act as presiding city (Vorort) –and how this confederacy, framed not only for common and pressing objects; but also on prinsparta ciples of equal rights and constant control on the part of the members, attracted soon the spontaneous adhesion of a large proportion of Greeks, insular or maritime, near the Ægean sea. I also noticed this event as giving commencement to a new æra in Grecian politics. For whereas there had been before a tendency, not very powerful, yet on the whole steady and increasing, towards something like one Pan-hellenic league under Sparta as president– from henceforward that tendency disappears, and a bifurcation begins: Athens and Sparta divide the Grecian world between them, and bring a much larger number of its members into cooperation, either with one or the other, than had ever been so arranged before.

    Thucydidês marks precisely, as far as general words can go, the character of the new confederacy during the first years after its commencement: but unhappily he gives us scarcely any particular facts, –and in the absence of such controlling evidence, a habit has grown up of describing loosely the entire period between 477 B.C. and 405 B.C. (the lat- ter date is that of the battle of Ægos-potamos) as constituting “ the Athenian empire.”

  • CHAPTER XLII - Battles of Platæ and Mykalê.–Final Repulse of the Persians

  • George Grote
  • Book:
    A History of Greece
    Published online:
    05 October 2010
    Print publication:
    01 April 2010, pp 197-272
    First published in:
    1849

  • Summary

    Though the defeat at Salamis deprived the Persians Perof all hope from farther maritime attack of Greece, they still anticipated success by land from the en- suing campaign of Mardonius. Their fleet, after ha- ving conveyed the monarch himself with his accompanying land-force across the Hellespont, re- tired to winter at Kymê and Samos: in the latter of which places large rewards were bestowed upon Theomêstor and Phylakus, two Samian captains who had distinguished themselves in the late engagement. Theomêstor was even nominated despot of Samos under Persian protection. Early in the spring they were reassembled, to the number of 400 sail, but without the Phœnicians, at the naval station of Samos, intending however only to maintain a watchful guard over Ionia, and hardly supposing that the Greek fleet would venture to attack them.

    For a long time, the conduct of that fleet was such as to justify such belief in its enemies. Assembled at Ægina in the spring, to the number of 110 ships, under the Spartan king Leotychidês, it advanced as far as Delos, but not farther eastward : nor could all the persuasions of Chian and other thorities and to the fleet, and promising to revolt from Persia as soon as the Grecian fleet should appear, prevail upon Leotychidês to hazard any aggressive enterprise.

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