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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 3008296, member: 57463&quot;]<font face="Arial">You know, you do not need to limit yourself to Athens.&nbsp; A little research goes a long way. Do you live near a university with a library?&nbsp; HUNDREDS of cities were involved in this. You could make this a lifetime pursuit.&nbsp; You could buy 10 or 20 coins from different cities 431-404 BCE for the price of a single Owl. </font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia">The Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC) was an ancient Greek war fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. Historians have traditionally divided the war into three phases. In the first phase...&nbsp; -- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloponnesian_War" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloponnesian_War" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloponnesian_War</a></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">By 454, the Delian League could be fairly characterised as an Athenian Empire; a key event of 454 was the moving of the treasury of the Delian League from Delos to Athens. This is often seen as a key marker of the transition from alliance to empire, but while it is significant, it is important to view the period as a whole when considering the development of Athenian imperialism, and not to focus on a single event as being the main contributor to it. At the start of the Peloponnesian War, only Chios and Lesbos were left to contribute ships, and these states were by now far too weak to secede without support. Lesbos tried to revolt first, and failed completely. Chios, the most powerful of the original members of the Delian League save Athens, was the last to revolt, and in the aftermath of the Syracusan Expedition enjoyed success for several years, inspiring all of Ionia to revolt. Athens was nonetheless eventually able to suppress these revolts --&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delian_League" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delian_League" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delian_League</a>. </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">Sparta acquired two powerful allies, Corinth and Elis (also city-states), by ridding Corinth of tyranny, and helping Elis secure control of the Olympic Games. Sparta continued to aggressively use a combination of foreign policy and military intervention to gain other allies. Sparta suffered an embarrassing loss to Tegea in a frontier war and eventually offered them a permanent defensive alliance; this was the turning point for Spartan foreign policy. Many other states in the central and provincial northern Peloponnese joined the league, which eventually included all Peloponnesian states except Argos and Achaea. -- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloponnesian_League" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloponnesian_League" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloponnesian_League</a></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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