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- Frontmatter
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- 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
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
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 state of Athens after the expulsion of the Thirty was in some respects apparently less desolate than that in which she had been left after the battle of Platæa. It is possible indeed that the invasions of Xerxes and Mardonius may have inflicted less injury on her territory than the methodical and lingering ravages of the Peloponnesians during the Decelean war. But in 479 the city, as well as the country, had been, for a part of two consecutive years, in the power of an irritated enemy. All that it required both for ornament and defence was to be raised afresh from the ground. Yet the treasury was empty: commerce had probably never yet yielded any considerable supplies, and it had been deeply disturbed by the war; the state possessed no dependent colonies or tributary allies, and was watched with a jealous eye by the most powerful of its confederates. Nevertheless it was impossible for an Athenian patriot to compare the situation and prospects of his country at these two epochs without a sigh. In 479 Athens was mistress of a navy which gave her the pre-eminence over all the maritime states of Greece, and enabled her to carry her arms against any part of the enemy's coasts, to which she might be invited by the propects of plunder or conquest; and a little vigour and prudence was sufficient to secure the city itself against the hostility of Sparta.
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- A History of Greece , pp. 210 - 280Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1837