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Personal activity now prevalent among the Athenian citizens—empire of Athens again exclusively maritime, after the Thirty years’ truce.—Chios, Samos, and Lesbos, were now the only free allies of Athens, on the same footing as the original confederates of Delos—the rest were su...
Personal activity now prevalent among the Athenian citizens—empire of Athens again exclusively maritime, after the Thirty years’ truce.—Chios, Samos, and Lesbos, were now the on...
2. CHAPTER XLVIII.State of feeling in Greece between the Thirty years’ truce and the Peloponnesian war—recognized probability of war—Athens at that time not encroaching—decree interdicting trade...
3. CHAPTER XLIX.Barren results of the operations during the first year of war.—Second invasion of Attica by the Peloponnesians—more spreading and ruinous than the first.—Commencement of the pes...
4. CHAPTER L.Fourth year of the war—internal suffering at Athens.—Renewed invasion of Attica.—Revolt of Mitylênê and most part of Lesbos from Athens.—Proceedings of Athens—powerful condition...
5. CHAPTER LI.Capture of Minôa, opposite Megara, by the Athenians under Nikias.—Nikias—his first introduction, position, and character.—Varying circumstances and condition of the oligarchical...
6. CHAPTER LII.Seventh year of the war—invasion of Attica.—Distress in Korkyra from the attack of the oligarchical exiles. A Peloponnesian fleet and an Athenian fleet are both sent thither.—De...
7. CHAPTER LIII.Important operations of the eighth year of the war.—Capture of Kythêra by the Athenians. Nikias ravages the Laconian coast.—Capture of Thyrea—all the Æginetans resident there ar...
8. CHAPTER LIV.Eighth year of the war—began with most favorable promise for Athens—closed with great reverses to her.—Desire of Spartans to make peace in order to regain the captives—they decl...
9. CHAPTER XLVII.The judicial alterations effected at Athens by Periklês and Ephialtês, described in the preceding chapter, gave to a large proportion of the citizens direct jury functions and a...
10. CHAPTER XLVIII.Even before the recent hostilities at Korkyra and Potidæa, it had been evident to reflecting Greeks that the continued observance of the thirty years’ truce was very uncertain,...
11. CHAPTER XLIX.At the close of one year after the attempted surprise of Platæa by the Thebans, the belligerent parties in Greece remained in an unaltered position as to relative strength. Noth...
12. CHAPTER L.The second and third years of the war had both been years of great suffering with the Athenians, from the continuance of the epidemic, which did not materially relax until the w...
13. CHAPTER LI.About the same time as the troubles of Korkyra occurred, Nikias, the Athenian general, conducted an armament against the rocky island of Minôa, which lay at the mouth of the har...
14. CHAPTER LII.The invasion of Attica by the Lacedæmonians had now become an ordinary enterprise, undertaken in every year of the war except the third and sixth, and then omitted only from acc...
15. CHAPTER LIII.The eighth year of the war, on which we now touch, presents events of a more important and decisive character than any of the preceding. In reviewing the preceding years, we obs...
16. CHAPTER LIV.The eighth year of the war, described in the last chapter, had opened with sanguine hopes for Athens, and with dark promise for Sparta, chiefly in consequence of the memorable c...