This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...in her old position. Under these circumstances Athens confined herself more and more to her maritime interests. Still the Boeotians and Peloponnesians never forgave the Athenians for the short intoxication of a sway of almost Pan-Hellenic character, nor for the destruction of the navy of Aegina. The ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...in her old position. Under these circumstances Athens confined herself more and more to her maritime interests. Still the Boeotians and Peloponnesians never forgave the Athenians for the short intoxication of a sway of almost Pan-Hellenic character, nor for the destruction of the navy of Aegina. The maritime states of the Peloponnese, and the patrician governments from Locris to Taenaram, were consumed with jealousy when they saw how Athens after 445 continued to develop more and more brilliantly in the domain that remained to her. It did not help the Athenians that they systematically avoided all conflicts with the continental states of Greece. This unfortunate attitude of the Greek world must not be forgotten in the contemplation of the new splendor of Athens during the period that immediately follows; it enables us to understand the genesis of the Peloponnesian war. After the conclusion of peace with Sparta, Pericles had a hard struggle at home in defending his administration. The conservative elements, which could now point to the inglorious and ruinous issue of the last war, to the growing dissatisfaction of all classes at the increasing preponderance of the urban element in the state, had again found an able leader in Thucydides of Alopece, son of Melesias, a universally esteemed relative of the house of Cimon. Skilful in parliamentary conflicts, he was able to unite the groups of his party that had been divided since the battle of Tanagra and Cimon's reconciliation with Pericles. His most violent attacks were directed, after the rage of the Athenians over the peace of 445 had subsided, against Pericles's policy concerning the Delian Confederation, especially his expenditure of the surplus of the federal treasury in building the...
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