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Andocides, On the Mysteries, section 108 (search)
After their triumph, however, they refused to revive old quarrels. And that is how men who found their city a waste, her temples burnt to the ground, and her walls and houses in ruins, men who were utterly without resources,Another gross historical error. Andocides fails to distinguish between the first Persian invasion, which ended with the Athenian victory at Marathon （490 B.C.） and the second （480 B.C.）, in the course of which Athens was sacked by the enemy. brought Greece under their sway and handed on to you the glorious and mighty Athens of today—by living in unity. Long afterwards you in your turn had to face a crisis just as greatAfter Aego
Andocides, On the Peace, section 5 (search)
To begin with, we fortified Peiraeus in the course of this periodAgain an error. Peiraeus was fortified by Themistocles immediately after the repulse of the Persians in 480.: secondly, we built the Long Wall to the northThe northern Long Wall, connecting Athens with Peiraeus, was in fact built in 457, over ten years before the negotiation of the peace which Andocides is discussing. Nothing is said of the wall to the south, running between Athens and Phalerum, which was constructed at the same time.: then the existing fleet of old, unseaworthy triremes with which we had won Greece her independence by defeating the king of Persia and his barbarians—these existing vessels were replaced by a hundred new onesAn obvious inaccuracy. The Athenian fleet had been growing steadily since the Persian Wars and the institution of the Delian League.: and it was at this time that we first enrolled three hundred cavalry and purchased three hundred Scythian archersCavalry had been in existence sin
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 204 (search)
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 238 (search)
When you talk about fair terms with
the Thebans, Aeschines, or with the Byzantines and the Euboeans, and raise at
this time of day the question of equal contributions, in the first place, you
must be unaware that of that famous fleet of three hundred galleys that fought
for Greecethat fought for Greece:
at Salamis, 480 B.C. in former days, our city supplied two hundred;
and that she did not show any sign of complaining that she was unfairly treated,
or impeaching the statesmen whose advice she took, or airing her
dissatisfaction. That would have been discreditable indeed! No, she gave thanks
to the gods that, when all the Greeks alike were encompassed by a great peril,
she had contributed twice as much as all the rest to the common deliverance.
Demosthenes, Funeral Speech, section 10 (search)
Those men single-handed twice repulsed by land and sea the
expedition assembled out of the whole of Asia,King Darius of Persia was repulsed at Marathon, 490, and Xerxes at Salamis,
480 B.C. The Persian wars are discussed at
length in Plat. Menex. 239d ff.
and at their individual risks established themselves as the authors of
the joint salvation of all the Greeks. And though what I shall say next has been
said before by many another, still even at this date those dead must not be
deprived of their just and excellent praise. For I say that with good reason
those men might be judged so far superior to those who campaigned against Troy,
that the latter, the foremost princes out of the whole of Greece, with
difficulty captured a single stronghold of Asia after besieging it for ten
When all the Greeks, at the time Xerxes was
about to cross over into Europe,480 B.C. dispatched an embassy to Gelon to
discuss an alliance, and when he answered that he would ally himself with them and supply them
with grain, provided that they would grant him the supreme command either on the land or on the
sea, the tyrant's ambition for glory in his demanding the supreme command thwarted the
alliance; and yet the magnitude of the aid he could supply and the fear of the enemy were
impelling them to share the glory with Gelon.See Hdt. 7.157 ff. But Gelon himself was in danger from an attack of the
Carthaginians upon the Greeks of Sicily.
480 B.C.The preceding Book, which is the tenth of our narrative, closed with the events of the
year just before the crossing of Xerxes into Europe
and the formal deliberations which the general assembly of the Greeks held in Corinth on the alliance between Gelon and the Greeks; and in
this Book we shall supply the further course of the history, beginning with the campaign of
Xerxes against the Greeks, and we shall stop with the year which precedes the campaign of the
Athenians against Cyprus under the leadership of
Cimon.That is, the Book covers the years 480-451 B.C.
Calliades was archon in
Athens, and the Romans made Spurius Cassius and
Proculus Verginius Tricostus consuls, and the Eleians celebrated the Seventy-fifth Olympiad,
that in which Astylus of Syracuse won the
"stadion." It was in this year that king Xerxes made his campaign against Greece, for the following reason. Mardonius the Persian was a cousin of Xerxes and rel