A Smaller History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest |
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Achæans Acropolis afterwards Agesilaus Alcibiades Alexander alliance allies Amphipolis ancient Antigonus Antipater Argos army arrived Artaxerxes Asia Minor assembly assistance Athenian fleet Athenians Athens attack Attica battle became began blockade body Bœotia called Cassander cavalry celebrated citizens Cleon coast command confederacy Conon Corinth Corinthians Cyrus Darius death defeated Demetrius Demosthenes despatched despot Dionysius empire enemy Epaminondas Ephors exiles expedition favour festival force fought garrison Grecian cities Greece Greeks Harbour Hellespont hoplites Ionians island king Lacedæ Lacedæmonians land latter length Lysander Macedonian Messenians nians Nicias oligarchy Parthenon Pausanias peace Pelopidas Peloponnesian Peloponnesus Pericles Persian Pharnabazus Philip Phocion Phocis Piræus polemarchs possession Propylæa Ptolemy resolved restored sailed Salamis Sardis satrap seized sent ships Sicily side siege slain Socrates soon Sparta succeeded surrender Syracusans Syracuse temple Thebans Thebes Themistocles Thermopylæ Thessaly Thrace Timoleon tion Tissaphernes took town triremes troops tyrant victory walls whilst whole Xerxes