Ancient Greece : a sketch of its art, literature & philosophy viewed in connexion with its external history from earliest times to the age of Alexander the Great (1915)
Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846 · London : G. G. Harrap · leaf 456
er the influence of such demagogues andadventurers as Cleon and Alcibiades, they embarked on thedisastrous Sicilian expedition (415), by which, and by the revoltof almost all their allies, their power was fatally underminedand rapidly sank, until Sparta, which had built ships and hadeven stooped to… … 92. The Meidias Vase See List of Illustrations 326 THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR The story of this Peloponnesian War (as we call it, regardingit from the Athenian point of view) is told very fully by Thucy-dides down to the year 411, and is continued by Xenophonin his Hellenica. Later historians have…
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