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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER XXVII FROM THE CLOSE OF THE SICILIAN EXPEDITION TO THE BEGINNING OF THE RUPTURE BETWEEN THE SPARTANS AND ALCIBIADES
- CHAP. XXVIII FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE RUPTURE BETWEEN THE SPARTANS AND ALCIBIADES TO THE OVERTHROW OF THE FOUR HUNDRED AT ATHENS, AND THE RESTORATION OF ALCIBIADES
- CHAP. XXIX FROM THE OVERTHROW OF THE FOUR HUNDRED TO THE BATTLE OF NOTIUM
- CHAP. XXX FROM THE BATTLE OF NOTIUM TO THE END OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
- CHAP. XXXI FROM THE END OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR TO THE REESTABLISHMENT OF DEMOCRACY AT ATHENS
- CHAP. XXXII RETROSPECTIVE SURVEY OF THE INTERNAL CONDITION OF ATHENS DURING THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR, CARRIED FORWARD TO THE RENEWAL OF HOSTILITIES BETWEEN ATHENS AND SPARTA
- CHAP. XXXIII THE EXPEDITION OF CYRUS THE YOUNGER
- CHAP. XXXIV THE RETURN OF THE GREEKS
- CHAP. XXXV FROM THE RENEWAL OF HOSTILITIES BETWEEN SPARTA AND PERSIA TO THE DEATH OF LYSANDER
- CHAP. XXXVI FROM THE DEATH OF LYSANDER TO THE PEACE OF ANTALCIDAS
- APPENDIX
CHAPTER XXVII - FROM THE CLOSE OF THE SICILIAN EXPEDITION TO THE BEGINNING OF THE RUPTURE BETWEEN THE SPARTANS AND ALCIBIADES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER XXVII FROM THE CLOSE OF THE SICILIAN EXPEDITION TO THE BEGINNING OF THE RUPTURE BETWEEN THE SPARTANS AND ALCIBIADES
- CHAP. XXVIII FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE RUPTURE BETWEEN THE SPARTANS AND ALCIBIADES TO THE OVERTHROW OF THE FOUR HUNDRED AT ATHENS, AND THE RESTORATION OF ALCIBIADES
- CHAP. XXIX FROM THE OVERTHROW OF THE FOUR HUNDRED TO THE BATTLE OF NOTIUM
- CHAP. XXX FROM THE BATTLE OF NOTIUM TO THE END OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
- CHAP. XXXI FROM THE END OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR TO THE REESTABLISHMENT OF DEMOCRACY AT ATHENS
- CHAP. XXXII RETROSPECTIVE SURVEY OF THE INTERNAL CONDITION OF ATHENS DURING THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR, CARRIED FORWARD TO THE RENEWAL OF HOSTILITIES BETWEEN ATHENS AND SPARTA
- CHAP. XXXIII THE EXPEDITION OF CYRUS THE YOUNGER
- CHAP. XXXIV THE RETURN OF THE GREEKS
- CHAP. XXXV FROM THE RENEWAL OF HOSTILITIES BETWEEN SPARTA AND PERSIA TO THE DEATH OF LYSANDER
- CHAP. XXXVI FROM THE DEATH OF LYSANDER TO THE PEACE OF ANTALCIDAS
- APPENDIX
Summary
The news of the disaster which had befallen the Athenian arms in Sicily, was no doubt soon conveyed by many channels to Greece; but, if we may believe an anecdote preserved by Plutarch, it did not reach Athens until it was generally known elsewhere. He relates, that a foreigner who had landed at Piræus, as he took his seat in a rber's shop, happened to mention the event of the Sicilian expedition as a subject of conversation which he supposed to be commonly notorious; and the barber, having hastened to the city to convey the intelligence to the archons, was immediately brought before an assembly of the people, which they summoned to hear his report but as he was unable to give any account of his informer, he was put to the rack, as the author of a false alarm, until the truth was confirmed by other witnesses. According to another story, in itself not more improbable, the multitude was assembled in the theatre, listening with unusual delight to a burlesque poem of the Thasian Hegemon, the client of Alcibiades, which by a singular coincidence turned on the overthrow of the Giants, when the sad tidings arrived, and soon spread through the spectators: yet, though almost each had some private loss to bewail, beside the public calamity, they both kept their seats, and hid their tears, that their grief might not be observed by the foreigners present, and would not even suffer the poet to leave off.
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- A History of Greece , pp. 1 - 25Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1837