Category: History - Ancient
Rally of Athens, during the year after the defeat at Syracuse. B.C. 412.—Commencement of the conspiracy of the Four Hundred at Athens—Alkibiadês.—Order from Sparta to kill Alkibiadês.—He escapes, retires to Tissaphernês, and becomes adviser of the Persians.—He advises the satr...
Rally of Athens, during the year after the defeat at Syracuse. B.C. 412.—Commencement of the conspiracy of the Four Hundred at Athens—Alkibiadês.—Order from Sparta to kill Alkib...
2. CHAPTER LXIII.Embarrassed state of Athens after the Four Hundred.—Peloponnesian fleet—revolt of Abydos from Athens.—Strombichidês goes from Chios to the Hellespont—improved condition of the C...
3. CHAPTER LXIV.Cyrus the younger—effects of his coming down to Asia Minor.—Pharnabazus detains the Athenian envoys.—Lysander—Lacedæmonian admiral in Asia.—Proceedings of the preceding admiral,...
4. CHAPTER LXV.Alleged propositions of peace from Sparta to Athens—doubtful.—Eteonikus at Chios—distress of his seamen—conspiracy suppressed.—Solicitations from Chios and elsewhere that Lysand...
5. CHAPTER LXVI.Miserable condition of Athens during the two preceding years.—Immediate relief caused by the restoration.—Unanimous sentiment towards the renewed democracy.—Amnesty—treatment of...
6. CHAPTER LXVII.Athens immediately after Eukleidês—political history little known.—Extraordinary development of dramatic genius.—Gradual enlargement of tragedy.—Abundance of new tragedy at Athe...
7. CHAPTER LXVIII.Different spirit shown towards Sokratês and towards the sophists.—Birth and family of Sokratês.—His physical and moral qualities.—Xenophon and Plato as witnesses.—Their pictures...
8. CHAPTER LXII.About a year elapsed between the catastrophe of the Athenians near Syracuse and the victory which they gained over the Milêsians, on landing near Milêtus (from September 413 B.C...
9. c. 5, and Diodorus, xiii, 38-42) mentions Theramenês as theprincipal author of the decree for restoring Alkibiadês from exile. But the precise words of the elegy composed by Kritias, wherein the latter vindicates this proceeding to hims...
10. CHAPTER LXIII.The oligarchy of Four Hundred at Athens, installed in the senate-house about February or March 411 B.C., and deposed about July of the same year, after four or five months of da...
11. CHAPTER LXIV.The advent of Cyrus, commonly known as Cyrus the younger, into Asia Minor, was an event of the greatest importance, opening what may be called the last phase in the Peloponnesia...
12. CHAPTER LXV.The victory of Arginusæ gave for the time decisive mastery of the Asiatic seas to the Athenian fleet; and is even said to have so discouraged the Lacedæmonians, as to induce the...
13. c. 19) recounts as if the Milesians, not the Thasians, were theI interpret the words σφαγὰς τῶν γνωρίμων ποιήσαντες to refer to the violent revolution at Samos, described in Thucyd. viii, 21, whereby the oligarchy were dispossessed and a de...
14. CHAPTER LXVI.The period intervening between the defeat of Ægospotami (October, 405 B.C.) and the reëstablishment of the democracy as sanctioned by the convention concluded with Pausanias, so...
15. CHAPTER LXVII.Respecting the political history of Athens during the few years immediately succeeding the restoration of the democracy, we have unfortunately little or no information. But in t...
16. CHAPTER LXVIII.That the professional teachers called sophists, in Greece, were intellectual and moral corruptors, and that much corruption grew up under their teaching in the Athenian mind, ar...
17. did. His life remains as the only evidence, but a very satisfactoryevidence, how much can be done by this sort of intelligent interrogation; how powerful is the interest which it can be made to inspire; how energetic the stimulus which it can a...