A Handbook of Grecian and Roman Antiquities

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ... her power, which especially increased after the year B.c. A 371. The justness and mildness, however, which Athens had exercised at the beginning for the sake of consolidating her newly regained power, did not last long, and her Hegemonia was for the most part lost through fresh abuses (the war of the confederate states B. C. 357--355). The feebleness of Athens and Sparta placed Thebes for a short time (b. C. 371 Leuctra--362 Mantinea) in a position to claim hegemonical authority. Philip of Macedon availed himself of these disputes and the decline of the states, and after the victory of Chaeronea assumed the Hegemonia, which B soon became a Macedonian tyranny, and was feebly resisted by the Greeks, until the power of Rome at last swallowed up both the contending parties. Colonial Relations. 1. History of Colonization. The establishment of Grecian colonies (airoiKiai) may be 211 traeed back to the expedition of the Heraclidae and its concomitant events. Penthilus, the son of Orestes, is said to have led colonies from Bceotia to Lesbos, Tenedos, and some of the smaller islands (jEolian, Achaean) on the coasts of Mysia. South of these, on the coast of Lydia, in c northern Caria and some islands of the iEgean sea, settlements were founded by the Ionians, who had taken refuge in Attica, after they were driven from the north coast of Peloponnesus by the Achaeans, and thence had gone out under the sons of Cadmus to seek new abodes. In conjunction with people from various other tribes they colonized a great part of the Cyclades, and founded on the coasts of Asia Minor and the neighbouring islands independent states, which, although loosely connected by a sort of league (Uaviwvin), were often involved in hostilities with each D other, but raised themselves by...