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Thucydides reports that the dispute between Athens and Thasos was caused by a dispute over control of markets on the Thracian coast and a gold mine that the Thasians controlled. [1] Most scholars believe that Athens was the aggressor in this dispute, although G.E.M. de Ste. Croix has argued that the Athenians were intervening on behalf of a ...
Still, hints of conflict emerged. Thucydides reports that in the mid 460s BC, Sparta decided to invade Attica during the Thasian rebellion, but was stopped by an earthquake in 464 BC that triggered a revolt among the helots. [16] [17] It was that helot revolt which would eventually bring on the crisis that precipitated the war.
Historians know only that it happened before the disastrous earthquake of 464 BC. Thucydides here is the only one to implicate the helots: Pausanias speaks rather about Lacedaemonians who had been condemned to death. [59] Nor does the text allow us to conclude that this was a failed uprising of helots, only that there was an attempt at escape.
Exceptions are made if the unit is commonly known by another name (for example, 1 micron = 10 −6 metre). ... ≡ 200 mg = 200 mg clove: ≡ 8 lb av = 3.628 738 96 kg:
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