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HISTORY OF GREECE.
BY
GEORGE GROTE, Esq.
VOL. VI.
REPRINTED FROM THE LONDON EDITION
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
329 AND 331 PEARL STREET.
1879.
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CONTENTS.
VOL. VI.
PART II.
CONTINUATION OF HISTORICAL GREECE.
CHAPTER XLVII.
FROM THE THIRTY YEARS’ TRUCE, FOURTEEN YEARSBEFORE THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR, DOWN TO THE BLOCKADE OF POTIDÆA, IN THEYEAR BEFORE THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR.
Personal activity now prevalent among the Atheniancitizens — empire of Athens again exclusively maritime, after theThirty years’ truce. — Chios, Samos, and Lesbos, were now theonly free allies of Athens, on the same footing as the originalconfederates of Delos — the rest were subject and tributary. —Athens took no pains to inspire her allies with the idea of a commoninterest — nevertheless, the allies were gainers by the continuanceof her empire. — Conception of Periklês — Athens, an imperialcity, owing protection to the subject-allies; who, on their part,owed obedience and tribute. — Large amount of revenue laid by andaccumulated by Athens, during the years preceding the Peloponnesianwar. — Pride felt by Athenian citizens in the imperial power oftheir city. — Numerous Athenian citizens planted out as kleruchs byPeriklês. — Chersonesus of Thrace. Sinôpê. — Active personal andcommercial relations between Athens and all parts of the Ægean.— Amphipolis in Thrace founded by Athens. — Agnon is sent out asŒkist. — Situation and importance of Amphipolis. — Foundation, by theAthenians, of Thurii, on the southern coast of Italy. — Conduct ofthe refugee inhabitants of the ruined Sybaris — their encroachmentsin the foundation of Thurii: they are expelled, and Thuriireconstituted. — Herodotus and Lysias — both domiciliated as citizensat Thurii. Few Athenian citizens settled there as colonists. — Periodfrom 445-431 B.C. Athens at peace. Her politicalcondition. Rivalry of Periklês with Thucydidês son of Melêsias. —Points of contention between the two parties: 1. Peace with Persia.2. Expenditure of money for the decoration of Athens. — Defence ofPeriklês perfectly good against his political rivals. — Pan-Hellenicschemes and sentiment of Periklês. — Bitter contention of parties atAthens — vote of ostracism[p.iv] — Thucydidês is ostracized about 443 B.C.— New works undertaken at Athens. Third Long Wall. Docks in Peiræus— which is newly laid out as a town, by the architect Hippodamus.— Odeon, Parthenon, Propylæa. Other temples. Statues of Athênê. —Illustrious artists and architects — Pheidias, Iktînus, Kallikratês.— Effect of these creations of art and architecture upon the mindsof contemporaries. — Attempt of Periklês to convene a generalcongress at Athens, of deputies from all the Grecian states. —Revolt of Samos fr