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- Frontmatter
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- CHAPTER XVII FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE ATHENIAN MARITIME ASCENDANCY TO THE THIRTY YEARS' TRUCE BETWEEN ATHENS AND SPARTA
- CHAP. XVIII FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE THIRTY YEARS' TRUCE TO THE RENEWAL OF HOSTILITIES BETWEEN ATHENS AND CORINTH, WITH A GENERAL VIEW OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF PERICLES
- CHAP. XIX CAUSES AND OCCASIONS OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
- CHAP. XX FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR TO THE END OF THE THIRD YEAR
- CHAP. XXI FOURTH AND FIFTH YEARS OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
- CHAP. XXII FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTH YEAR OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR TO THE GENERAL PACIFICATION OF SICILY
- CHAP. XXIII FROM THE GENERAL PACIFICATION OF SICILY TO THE PEACE OF NICIAS
- CHAP. XXIV FROM THE PEACE OF NICIAS TO THE CONQUEST OF MELOS
- CHAP. XXV THE SICILIAN EXPEDITION BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF GYLIPPUS IN SICILY
- CHAP. XXVI THE SICILIAN EXPEDITION FROM THE ARRIVAL OF GYLIPPUS TO ITS CLOSE
- APPENDIX
CHAP. XXV - THE SICILIAN EXPEDITION BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF GYLIPPUS IN SICILY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER XVII FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE ATHENIAN MARITIME ASCENDANCY TO THE THIRTY YEARS' TRUCE BETWEEN ATHENS AND SPARTA
- CHAP. XVIII FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE THIRTY YEARS' TRUCE TO THE RENEWAL OF HOSTILITIES BETWEEN ATHENS AND CORINTH, WITH A GENERAL VIEW OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF PERICLES
- CHAP. XIX CAUSES AND OCCASIONS OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
- CHAP. XX FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR TO THE END OF THE THIRD YEAR
- CHAP. XXI FOURTH AND FIFTH YEARS OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
- CHAP. XXII FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTH YEAR OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR TO THE GENERAL PACIFICATION OF SICILY
- CHAP. XXIII FROM THE GENERAL PACIFICATION OF SICILY TO THE PEACE OF NICIAS
- CHAP. XXIV FROM THE PEACE OF NICIAS TO THE CONQUEST OF MELOS
- CHAP. XXV THE SICILIAN EXPEDITION BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF GYLIPPUS IN SICILY
- CHAP. XXVI THE SICILIAN EXPEDITION FROM THE ARRIVAL OF GYLIPPUS TO ITS CLOSE
- APPENDIX
Summary
The tameness with which Sparta had looked on during the siege of Melos, the feeble resistance which she offered to the incursions of the Athenian garrison at Pylus, the vacillation and timidity which she betrayed in her transactions with Argos, and with her allies in Macedonia and Thrace, encouraged Athens to resume the projects of aggrandizement which the events of the war had compelled her for a time to lay aside. We have seen how ill she brooked the disappointment which she had suffered through the sudden termination to which the quarrels of the Sicilian Greeks had been brought by Hermocrates; and she had since shown that she only waited for an opportunity of renewing her enterprises in their island. Such an opportunity had appeared to present itself not long after the departure of the armament commanded by Eurymedon. The Leontines, when they saw the Athenians withdrawn, thought it expedient to prepare themselves, as well as they could, against the attacks which, notwithstanding the counsels of Hermocrates, they had always reason to apprehend from Syracuse. It seems to have been chiefly with this view that they admitted a large body of new citizens. But it was necessary to provide for these new settlers; and this could not be done without in some way disturbing the previous state of property. A proposal was accordingly made, and obtained general approbation among the commonalty, for a repartition of land.
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- A History of Greece , pp. 364 - 413Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1836