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Identifier: HistoryOfGreeceForHighSchoolsAndAcademies (find matches)
Title: History of Greece for High Schools and Academies
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Botsford, George Willis, 1862-1917
Subjects: Greece -- History
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.

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er another, with various de-118 ff* mands: that the Athenians should rescind the Megarian decree; that they should expel Pericles, because his familyP. 46. was under a curse; that they should grant independence to the communities of their empire. To all these demandsAthens turned a deaf ear. Pericles had long been prepar-ing for war, and he had reasons for believing that Athenswould be successful.Athenian re- Her empire was now about as large as ever, and far moresources. strongly consolidated. Among her independent allieswere Chios and Lesbos, Thessaly, Platsea, Corcyra, Nau-pactus, Acarnania, the Amphilochians, and Zacynthus; inItaly, Neapolis and Rhegium; in Sicily, Leontini and Se-Thuc. i, 19; gesta. Athens had thirteen thousand heavy-armed troops11, 9,13, 62. an(j a iarger force for garrison service; she had three hun-dred triremes of her own besides those of the allies, andher sailors were the best in the world. The Athenianscommanded the sea and its resources. The tributes from
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Beginning of the War 195 sian re-sources. their subject cities, together with other revenues, amount-ing in all to about a thousand talents a year, would benearly enough, in case of siege, to support the whole Atticpopulation on imported food. The plan of Pericles wasto venture no battle with the Peloponnesians, but to bringthe entire population within the walls, to allow the devas-tation of Attica, and to damage Peloponnese as much ashe could with his fleet. In this way he hoped to wear outthe enemy and to win a more favorable peace perhaps thanthat of 445 B.C. All the Peloponnesian states, except Argos and a part of Peioponne-Achaea, were in alliance with Lacedsemon; and outside ofPeloponnese, the Megarians, Boeotians, Phocians, Locrians,Ambraciots, and some others; in Sicily and in Italy most Thuc. i, 141-of the Dorian cities sympathized with Sparta. The few 142; n* 9*commercial states of the League provided ships; the others,land forces only. The League could muster an army oftwen

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