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| A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 38 | 38 | Browse | Search |
| Diodorus Siculus, Library | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
| Pausanias, Description of Greece | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
| Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
| Xenophon, Hellenica (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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431 B.C.When Euthydemus was archon in Athens, the
Romans elected in place of consuls three military tribunes, Manius Aemilianus Mamercus, Gaius
Julius, and Lucius Quinctius. In this year there began the Peloponnesian War, as it has been
called, between the Athenians and the Peloponnesians, the longest of all the wars which history
records; and it is necessary and appropriate to the plan of our history to set forth at the
outset the causesThe following "causes" are clearly drawn
from a violent anti-Periclean source, and Diodorus himself appears to wish to disavow them
when he states (chap. 41.1) that he has taken them directly from Ephorus. of the war.
While the Athenians were still
striving for the mastery of the sea, the funds which had been collected as a common undertaking
and placed at Delos, amounting to some eight
thousand talents,Given as ten thousand in chaps. 40.2;
54.3; Book 13.21.2. they had transferred to Athe
431 B.C.Now the causes of the Peloponnesian War were in general what I have described, as
Ephorus has recorded them. And when the leading states had become embroiled in war in this
fashion, the Lacedaemonians, sitting in council with the Peloponnesians, voted to make war upon
the Athenians, and dispatching ambassadors to the king of the Persians, urged him to ally
himself with them, while they also treated by means of ambassadors with their allies in
Sicily and Italy and persuaded them to come to their aid with two hundred triremes;
and for their own part they, together with the
Peloponnesians, got ready their land forces, made all other preparations for the war, and were
the first to commence the conflict. For in Boeotia the
city of the Plataeans was an independent state and had an alliance with the Athenians.The fuller account of the following incident is in Thuc. 2.2 ff.
But certain of its citizens, wishing to destroy its
ind