Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO VOL. V
- Contents
- PART II CONTINUATION OF HISTORICAL GREECE
- CHAPTER XXXVIII From the Battle of Marathon to the March of Xerxes against Greece
- CHAPTER XXXIX Proceedings in Greece from the Battle of Marathon to the time of the Battle of Thermopylæ
- CHAPTER XL Battles of Thermopylæ and Artemisium
- CHAPTER XLI Battle of Salamis.–Retreat of Xerxes
- CHAPTER XLII Battles of Platæ and Mykalê.–Final Repulse of the Persians
- CHAPTER XLIII Events in Sicily down to the expulsion of the Gelonian Dynasty and the establishment of Popular Governments throughout the Island
- CHAPTER XLIV From the Battles of Platæa and Mykalê down to the deaths of Themistoklês and Aristeidês
- CHAPTER XLV Proceedings of the Confederacy under Athens as head.-First formation and rapid expansion of the Athenian Empire
- CHAPTER XLVI Constitutional and Judicial Changes at Athens under Periklês
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CHAPTER XXXIX - Proceedings in Greece from the Battle of Marathon to the time of the Battle of Thermopylæ
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO VOL. V
- Contents
- PART II CONTINUATION OF HISTORICAL GREECE
- CHAPTER XXXVIII From the Battle of Marathon to the March of Xerxes against Greece
- CHAPTER XXXIX Proceedings in Greece from the Battle of Marathon to the time of the Battle of Thermopylæ
- CHAPTER XL Battles of Thermopylæ and Artemisium
- CHAPTER XLI Battle of Salamis.–Retreat of Xerxes
- CHAPTER XLII Battles of Platæ and Mykalê.–Final Repulse of the Persians
- CHAPTER XLIII Events in Sicily down to the expulsion of the Gelonian Dynasty and the establishment of Popular Governments throughout the Island
- CHAPTER XLIV From the Battles of Platæa and Mykalê down to the deaths of Themistoklês and Aristeidês
- CHAPTER XLV Proceedings of the Confederacy under Athens as head.-First formation and rapid expansion of the Athenian Empire
- CHAPTER XLVI Constitutional and Judicial Changes at Athens under Periklês
- Plate section
Summary
Our information respecting the affairs of Greece immediately after the repulse of the Persians from Marathon, is very scanty.
Kleomenês and Leotychidês, the two kings of Sparta (the former belonging to the elder or Eurystheneïd, the latter to the younger or the Prokleïd, race), had conspired for the purpose of dethroning the former Prokleïd king Demaratus: and Kleomenês had even gone so far as to tamper with the Delphian priestess for this purpose. His manoeuvre being betrayed shortly afterwards, he was so alarmed at the displeasure of the Spartans, that he retired into Thessaly, and from thence into Arcadia, where he employed the powerful influence of his regal character and heroic lineage to arm the Arcadian people against his country. The Spartans, alarmed in their turn, voluntarily invited him back with a promise of amnesty. But his renewed lease did not last long: his habitual violence of character became aggravated into decided insanity, insomuch that he struck with his stick whomsoever he met; and his relatives were forced to confine him in chains under a Helot sentinel. By severe menaces, he one day constrained this man to give him his sword, with which he mangled himself dreadfully and perished. So shocking a death was certain to receive a religious interpretation, but which among the misdeeds of his life had drawn down upon him the divine wrath, was a point difficult to determine.
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- A History of Greece , pp. 59 - 93Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010