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Tripolis (Greece) (search for this): book 4, chapter 81
Laconia (Greece) (search for this): book 4, chapter 81
Achaia (Greece) (search for this): book 4, chapter 81
Pellene (search for this): book 4, chapter 81
Megalopolis (Greece) (search for this): book 4, chapter 81
371 BC (search for this): book 4, chapter 81
218 BC (search for this): book 4, chapter 81
Chilon's Fruitless Attempts In Sparta
While Philip was thus engaged in Triphylia, Chilon
Chilon tries to seize the crown of Sparta, B. C. 218.
the Lacedaemonian, holding that the kingship
belonged to him in virtue of birth, and annoyed at the neglect of his claims by the Ephors
in selecting Lycurgus, determined to stir up a revolution: and believing that if he took
the same course as Cleomenes had done, and gave the common people hopes of land
allotments and redivision of property, the masses would quickly
follow him, he addressed himself to carrying out this policy.
Having therefore agreed with his friends on this subject, and
got as many as two hundred people to join his conspiracy,
he entered upon the execution of his project. But perceiving
that the chief obstacles in the way of the accomplishment
of his design were Lycurgus, and those Ephors who had invested
him with the crown, he directed his first efforts against them.
The Ephors he seized while at dinner, and put them all to
800 BC (search for this): book 4, chapter 81
236 BC - 222 BC (search for this): book 4, chapter 81