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Amphipolis (Greece) (search for this): chapter 12
ear with the next unexpected development of the war: a sudden reversal in the Spartan policy against waging military expeditions far from home. In 424 the Spartan general Brasidas led an army on a daring campaign against Athenian strongholds in far northern GreeceThuc. 4.74, Thuc. 4.78, Thuc. 4.120, Thuc. 4.135, hundreds of miles from Sparta. His most important victory came with the conquest of Amphipolis,Thuc. 4.102, , an important Athenian colony near the coast that the Athenians regarded as essential to their strategic position. Brasidas' success there robbed Athens of access to gold and silver mines and a major source of timber for building warships. Even though he was not directly involved in the battle at Amphipolis, Thucydides lost his command and was forced into exile because he was the comman
anctions against the city-state of MegaraPerseus Encyclopedia entry for Megara, , an ally of Sparta, and the Athenian blockade of Potidaea , a city-state formerly allied to Athens but now in revolt and seeking help from CorinthThuc. 1.13.5, , TRM OV Encyclopedia entry for Megara, a Spartan ally that lay just west of Athenian territory, and stopped its military blockage of Potidaea,Thuc. 1.71.4, Thuc. 1.139-140, Plut. Per. 29.4, a strategically located city-state in northern Greece. The Athenians had fors, they fought on resiliently. Despite the loss of manpower inflicted by the epidemic, the Athenian military forces proved effective. Potidaea, the ally whose rebellion had exacerbated the hostile relations between Athens and Corinth, was compelled to surrender in 430.Thu
ain routes to Athens and to compel some of the allies who had revolted to return to the alliance. The end of the war The aggressive Spartan commander Lysander Plut. Lys. 1 ultimately doomed Athenian hopes in the war by using Persian money to rebuild the Spartan fleet and by ensuring that it was well led. When in 406 he inflicted a defeat on an Athenian fleet at Notion Xen. Hell. 1.5.10 , near Ephesus on the Anatolian coast, Alcibiades, who had not been present but was held to have been reponsible for the safety of the Athenian forces,Plut. Alc. 35.4-36.3, Plut. Lys. 5.1-2 was forced into exile for the last time. The Athenian fleet nevertheless won a victory off the islands of ArginusaiXen. Hell. 1.6.22, Xen. Hell. 1.6.35, Xen. Hell. 1.7.4, Xen.
Laurion (Greece) (search for this): chapter 12
t. They could pay for the food with the huge financial reserves they had accumulated from the dues of the Delian League and the income from their silver mines. The Athenians could also retreat safely behind their walls in the case of attacks by the superior Spartan infantnian fortunes increased Thuc. 7.27.3-28 when twenty thousand slaves owned by the state and who worked in Athens' silver mines ran away to seek refuge in the Spartan camp. The loss of these slave miners put a stop to the flow of revenue frothe Peloponnesian War from the many interruptions to agriculture and from the catastrophic loss of income from the state's silver mines, that occurred after the Spartan army took up a permanent presence in 413 B.C. Work could thereafter no longer continue a