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The Athenians were conflicted about whether or not to make an alliance with the incoming Corcyraean emissaries. Kagan summarizes the factors facing the Athenians in his The Peloponnesian War. On the one hand, an alliance with Corcyra practically guaranteed Athenian naval dominance, as it would unite the two largest fleets in the Greek world. [15]
The Knights (Ancient Greek: Ἱππεῖς Hippeîs; Attic: Ἱππῆς) was the fourth play written by Aristophanes, who is considered the master of Old Comedy.The play is a satire on the social and political life of classical Athens during the Peloponnesian War, and in this respect it is typical of all the dramatist's early plays.
Peace with Sparta might have been possible, but the Athenian fleet, now based on the island of Samos, refused the change. In 411 BC, this fleet engaged the Spartans at the Battle of Syme. The fleet appointed Alcibiades their leader, and continued the war in Athens's name.
National Archaeological Museum Athens. I begin to sing about Poseidon, the great god, mover of the earth and fruitless sea god of the deep who is also lord of Helicon [57] and wide Aegae. A two-fold office the gods allotted you, O Shaker of the Earth, to be a tamer of horses and a saviour of ships! Hail, Poseidon, Holder of the Earth, dark ...
Athens at its height was a significant sea power, defeating the Persian fleet at the Battle of Salamis [132] —but the water was salty and undrinkable. [132] In an alternative version of the myth from Vergil's Georgics, [127] Poseidon instead gave the Athenians the first horse. [131] Athena offered the first domesticated olive tree.
The History explains that the primary cause of the Peloponnesian War was the "growth in power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta" (1.23.6). Thucydides traces the development of Athenian power through the growth of the Athenian empire in the years 479 BC to 432 BC in book one of the History (1.89–118). The legitimacy of the ...
The following contains spoilers from Tuesday’s episode of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Proceed accordingly. After switching up Medusa and Poseidon’s complicated lore, Tuesday’s episode ...
A possible sculpture of Erechtheus. Erechtheus (/ ɪ ˈ r ɛ k θj uː s,-θ i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἐρεχθεύς) in Greek mythology was a king of Athens, the founder of the polis and, in his role as god, attached to Poseidon, as "Poseidon Erechtheus".