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By 454 Athens moved the treasury of the Delian League from the Island of Delos to the Parthenon in Athens. [36] Benefitting greatly from the influx of cash coming out of the 150-330 members, [37] Athens used the money to reinforce its own naval supremacy and used the remaining funds to embellish the city with art and architecture. [36]
During the early years of the war, Athens and her non-Delian allies scored a series of victories. [59] However, the collapse of the simultaneous Delian League expedition in Egypt in 454 BC caused panic in Athens, and resulted in decreased military activity until 451 BC, when a five-year truce was concluded with Sparta. [60]
The members of the Delian League/Athenian Empire (c. 478-404 BC) can be categorized into two groups: the allied states (symmachoi) reported in the stone tablets of the Athenian tribute lists (454-409 BC), who contributed the symmachikos phoros ("allied tax") in money, and further allies, reported either in epigraphy or historiography, whose ...
Athens and her empire in 431 BC; the Athenian Empire was the direct descendant of the Delian League. After Byzantium, Sparta was eager to end her involvement in the war. [41] The Spartans were of the view that, with the liberation of mainland Greece, and the Greek cities of Asia Minor, the war's purpose had already been reached.
In 457 BC the Athenians had taken control of Boeotia at the Battle of Oenophyta, and spent the next ten years attempting to consolidate the League's power. In 454 BC Athens lost a fleet attempting to aid an Egyptian revolt against Persia; fearing revolts by the other members of the Delian League, Athens moved the treasury to their city from ...
The Thasian rebellion was an incident in 465 BC, in which Thasos rebelled against Athenian control, seeking to renounce its membership in the Delian League. The rebellion was prompted by a conflict between Athens and Thasos over control of silver deposits on the Thracian mainland, which Thasos had traditionally mined.
In Ancient Greece, phoros (Greek: φόρος) was the name for the membership dues paid to Athens by the members of the Delian League, formed to offer protection from Persian forces. It could be paid in military equipment (such as triremes) or money, most usually the latter. Consequently, a great deal of funds was paid to Athens for the purpose ...
By 454 Athens moved the treasury of the Delian League from the Island of Delos to the Parthenon in Athens. [3] Benefitting greatly from the influx of cash coming out of the 150-330 members, [4] Athens used the money to reinforce its own naval supremacy and used the remaining funds to embellish the city with art and architecture. [3]