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... . Defensive alliance between Korkyra and Athens . The Athenian ships take part in a fight between the Korkyraians and Corinthians . Hence the FIRST ALLEGED CAUSE OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR . B.C. PAGE X Chronological Table .
... . Defensive alliance between Korkyra and Athens . The Athenian ships take part in a fight between the Korkyraians and Corinthians . Hence the FIRST ALLEGED CAUSE OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR . B.C. PAGE X Chronological Table .
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... ships could bring to their doors the wealth of foreign lands . But we have to re- member that the country of which we have thus far spoken was not the whole of Hellas , nor did it contain the richest or the most splendid of Greek cities ...
... ships could bring to their doors the wealth of foreign lands . But we have to re- member that the country of which we have thus far spoken was not the whole of Hellas , nor did it contain the richest or the most splendid of Greek cities ...
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... ships sailing from the Peloponnesos struck off across the open water to the Italian peninsula would have been chosen as the spot for the earliest settlement in this direction ; but Korkyra is said to have been colonised about the same ...
... ships sailing from the Peloponnesos struck off across the open water to the Italian peninsula would have been chosen as the spot for the earliest settlement in this direction ; but Korkyra is said to have been colonised about the same ...
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... ships and an army of 700,000 men Dareios , it is said , reached the bridge of boats thrown across the Thrakian Bosporos , and thence marched on to the spot where the Ionians had prepared another bridge of boats by which he was to cross ...
... ships and an army of 700,000 men Dareios , it is said , reached the bridge of boats thrown across the Thrakian Bosporos , and thence marched on to the spot where the Ionians had prepared another bridge of boats by which he was to cross ...
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... ships . Yet these are the people of whom Dareios , on hearing of the burning of Sardeis with the temple of Kybêbê , speaks as though he had never so much as heard their name . This is a sample of the details which form the greater part ...
... ships . Yet these are the people of whom Dareios , on hearing of the burning of Sardeis with the temple of Kybêbê , speaks as though he had never so much as heard their name . This is a sample of the details which form the greater part ...
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