The History of Ancient Greece - 3-4 Author:John Gillies Subtitle: Its Colonies and Conquests; From the Earliest Accounts Till the Division of the Macedonian Empire in the East. Including the History of Literature, Philosophy, and the Fine Arts Volume: 3-4 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1820 Original Publisher: T. Cadell and W. Davies Subjects: Greece History /... more » Ancient / General History / Ancient / Greece History / Middle East / General History / Europe / Greece Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAP. XXIII. Rapacity and Cruelty of the Spartan Government. -- The Thirty Tyrants in Athens. -- Persecution of Lysias and his Family. -- Tfieramencs opposes tlie Tyrants. -- Sanguinary Speech of Critias. -- Death of T/ieramcnes. -- Persecution and Death of Alcibiades. -- Thrasybulus seizes Phylc. -- Defeats the Tyrants. -- Memorable Speech of Thrasybtdus. -- Oath of Amnesty -- not faithfully observed. The conquest of Athens, and the acknowledged dominion of Sparta, terminated the memorable war of twenty-seven years. It still remained for Lysander to reduce the island of Samos ', which enjoys the honourable distinction of being the last settlement in the East that defied the ambition of Pericles, and the last which submitted to the cruel policy of Lysander. The conquered islands and cities suffered still greater vexations under the Spartan, than they had done under the Athenian, empire. Among the hostile 2factions which ambition or danger had formed in those The rapacity and cruelty of the Spartan government 1 Comp. Xenoph. Hellen. l. ii. p. 461.« less