Book contents
- Frontmatter
- THE TRANSLATORS' PREFACE
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- BOOK I HISTORY OF THE DORIC RACE, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE END OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
- BOOK II RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY OF THE DORIANS
- APPENDIX
- APPENDIX I
- APPENDIX II
- APPENDIX III
- APPENDIX IV
- APPENDIX V
- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
- Plate section
APPENDIX IV
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- THE TRANSLATORS' PREFACE
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- BOOK I HISTORY OF THE DORIC RACE, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE END OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
- BOOK II RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY OF THE DORIANS
- APPENDIX
- APPENDIX I
- APPENDIX II
- APPENDIX III
- APPENDIX IV
- APPENDIX V
- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
- Plate section
Summary
History of the Greek congress or synedrion during the Persian war.
1. In the present article it will be my object to trace the foreign influence which Sparta possessed at the time of the Persian war, and for what length of time her supremacy in Greece remained uncontested and unshaken. This is chiefly seen in the proceedings of the congress of the allied Greek states: to ascertain which with precision, it will be first necessary to fix the chronology of the successive stages of the Persian war.
In the course of the year 481 B.C. (Olymp. 74.¾) Xerxes set out from his residence at Susa (Herod. VII. 20), found the great army assembled in Cappadocia, and marched to Sardis, from which town he sent ambassadors to the Greek cities (ib. 32). Having wintered here, the army marched in the spring of 480 B.C. (Olymp. 74. 4) to Abydosa; when it had reached the passes of Pieria, the Persian envoys returned (ib. 131.). Soon after this, they met at Thermopylæ the Greek forces, which had set out before the 75th Olympiad and the Carnean games, about June 480 B.C. Battles of Thermopylæ and Artemisium in μέσον θέϱος (VIII. 12.) both perhaps a short time before the Olympic festival (VIII. 26). Conquest of Attica, four months after the beginning of the διάβασις τοῦ ʿΕλλησπόν (VIII. 51).
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- History and Antiquities of the Doric Race , pp. 515 - 522Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1830