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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 12 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 17 (search)
Again, wherever there were tyrants, their habit of providing simply for
themselves, of looking solely to their personal comfort and family
aggrandizement, made safety the great aim of their policy,
and prevented
anything great proceeding from them; though they would each have their affairs with their immediate neighbors.
All this is only true of the mother country, for in Sicily they attained to
very great power.
Thus for a long time everywhere in Hellas do we find causes which make the
states alike incapable of combination for great and national ends, or of any
vigorous action of their own.
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 18 (search)
But at last a time came when the tyrants of
Athens and the far older tyrannies of the rest of Hellas were, with the
exception of those in Sicily, once and for all put down by Lacedaemon;
for this city, though after the settlement of the Dorians, its present
inhabitants, it suffered from factions for an unparalleled length of time,
still at a very early period obtained good laws, and enjoyed a freedom from
tyrants which was unbroken;
it has possessed the same form of government for more than four hundred
years, reckoning to the end of the late war,
and has thus been in a position
to arrange the affairs of the other states.
Not many years after the deposition of the tyrants, the battle of Marathon
was fought bet
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 36 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 44 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 2, chapter 7 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 2, chapter 65 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 3, chapter 86 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 3, chapter 88 (search)
The same winter the Athenians in Sicily and
the Rhegians, with thirty ships, made an expedition against the islands of
Aeolus; it being impossible to invade them in summer, owing to the want of water.
These islands are occupied by the Liparians, a Cnidian colony, who live in
one of them of no great size called Lipara; and from this as their headquarters cultivate the rest, Didyme, Strongyle,
and Hiera.
In Hiera the people in those parts believe that Hephaestus has his forge,
from the quantity of flame which they see it send out by night, and of smoke
by day.
These islands lie off the coast of the Sicels and Messinese, and were
allies of the Syracusans.
The Athenians laid wa
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 3, chapter 90 (search)
During the same summer different operations
were carried on by the different belligerents in Sicily; by the Siceliots themselves against each other, and by the Athenians and
their allies: I shall however confine myself to the actions in which the
Athenians took part, choosing the most important.
The death of the Athenian general Charoeades, killed by the Syracusans in
battle, left Laches in the sole command of the fleet, which he now directed
in concert with the allies against Mylae, a place belonging to the
Messinese.
Two Messinese battalions in garrison at Mylae laid an ambush for the party
landing from the ships,
but were routed with great slaughter by the Athenians and their allies, who