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Identifier: HistoryOfGreeceForHighSchoolsAndAcademies (find matches)
Title: History of Greece for High Schools and Academies
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Botsford, George Willis, 1862-1917
Subjects: Greece -- History
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.

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ame odious to the patriotsthrough its association with treason and conspiracy.Boeotian It seems that the Lacedaemonians accepted the invitation restored °* ^ese °ligarcns> for they immediately introduced a strong457 b.c. army into central Greece to check the progress of AthenianP. 130. influence in that quarter. Since the war with Persia,Thebes had been in disgrace on account of her Medism,and had lost control of Bceotia. The Lacedaemonians,though opposed to all federations but their own, restoredthe Boeotian League, with Thebes at its head, as a counter-poise to Athens. The Athenians with their allies marched457 b.c forth and engaged the Peloponnesians at Tanagra. ThisThuc. 1,107 f. was ^ £rst actuaj battle ever fought between the Atheniansand the Lacedaemonians. It was a bloody struggle, but theAthenians were worsted, partly because the Thessalianhorse deserted to the enemy. The Lacedaemonians now returned home, leaving theBoeotians in the lurch. Two months later the Athenians
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The Continental Federatio7t 167 under Myronides, an able general, again took the field and defeated the Boeotians at CEnophyta. Through this victory Thuc. i, 108. Athens brought into her alliance all the towns of Boeotia A^ienian 0 Continental except Thebes, also Phocis, already friendly, and Locris. Federation.The Athenians expelled the oligarchs from the Bceotiantowns and set up democratic governments favorable tothemselves. This policy proved unwise. The banishmentof an entire political party from so many towns created forAthens more enmity than friendship. But for a time every-thing went well. ^Egina surrendered, dismantled her 456 b.cwalls, and entered the Delian Confederacy as a tributarystate, paying thirty talents a year. About the same timeTrcezen and Achsea made an alliance with Athens. TheAthenians were now at the height of their power. TheirContinental Federation, which extended from the Isthmusto Thermopylae, included, in addition, not only Argos,Trcezen, and Achsea in Pe

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