Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, BOOK I, chapter 16

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16. There were different impediments to the progress of the different states. The Ionians had attained¹ great prosperity when Cyrus and the Persians, having overthrown Croesus and subdued the² countries between the river Halys and the sea, made war against them and enslaved³ the cities on the mainland. Some time afterwards,⁴ Darius, strong in the possession of the Phoenician fleet, conquered the islands also.

1 Impediments to progress:

2 B.C. 546.

3 (1) The rising power of the Persians.

4 B.C. 493.

Thucydides translated into English; with introduction, marginal analysis, notes, and indices. Volume 1. Thucydides. Benjamin Jowett. translator. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1881.

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- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER LXVII
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER LXXVII
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.13
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.17
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.4
- Harold North Fowler, Commentary on Thucydides Book 5, 5.20
- Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 7, 7.53
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- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.5.2
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), PHOENI´CIA
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- Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander, The Archaic Age
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