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The History of Ancient Greece

The History of Ancient Greece

Gillies, John

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1150836008
ISBN13: 9781150836008
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.25 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
Questo libro di storia potrebbe contenere numerosi refusi e parti di testo mancanti. Solitamente gli acquirenti hanno la possibilita di scaricare gratuitamente una copia scansionata del libro originale (senza refusi) direttamente dall'editore. Il libro e Non illustrato. 1822 edition. Estratto: ...the languor of peace, without enjoying the benefits of security. But if the whole Grecian name was dishonoured by accepting this ignominious treaty, what peculiar infamy must belong to the magistrates of Sparta, by whom it was proposed and promoted? What motives of advantage could balance this weight of disgrace? Or rather, what advantage could the Spartans derive from such ignoble condescension as seemed totally unworthy of their actual power, but far more unworthy of their ancient renown? This question, like most See tke articles of the treaty concluded in 449, A. C. vol. ii. c. xii. political questions, may be best answered by facts; and the transactions which both preceded and followed the peace of Antalcidas clearly reveal the secret, but powerful causes of that dishonourable, and seemingly disadvantageous, measure. The ambition of making conquests in the East, M0t;ves which it now appeared impossible to retain, had which endeprived the Lacedjemonians of an authority, or flans'6 rather dominion, in Greece, acquired by the sue-eagerly to c n i L) '3. c c cess of the Peloponnesian war, and which they that treaty, might have reasonably expected to preserve and to confirm. Not only their power, but their safety, was threatened by the arms of a hostile confederacy, which had been formed and fomented by the wealth of Persia. Athens, their rival, their superior, their subject, but always their unrelenting enemy, had recovered her walls and fleet, and aspired to command the sea. Thebes and Argos had become sensible of their natural strength, and disdained to acknowledge the pre-eminence, or to follow the standard, of any foreign republic. The inferior states of...

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