Greece in Fifth Century B.C.! The common culture of the Greeks began assuming distinctive forms and elegance since early sixth century before the birth of Christ and the speculations of the Ionian philosophers by the end of the century or from the beginning of the fifth century B.C. had produced an intellectual movement which permeated the whole of Greece. Shelley [...]
Athenian Expedition to Sicily! Affairs of Segesta and Selinus: In 416 B.C. the Athenian attention was turned to Sicily where the Dorian city of Selinus and Athenian ally Segesta had fallen out. It became an unequal fight when Syracuse joined the side of Selinus, on promise of payment of the expenses of the expedition. Hard pressed both by land and [...]
Alliance with Argos during Second Phase of the Peloponnesian War! Signing of a defensive alliance by Sparta with Athens led to the actual dissolution of the Peloponnesian League. Corinth, and the Chalcidiatis of Thebes made alliance with Argos, and so also did the Mantineans who had been extending their power in Arcadia and feared that Sparta might curtail it. Elis [...]