Plutarch's Cimon and Pericles Author:Plutarch Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 432 Prosecutions of Aspasia, Anaxagoras, and Phei- dias (Pericles, xxxi.-xxxii.). 431 Theban assault upon Plataea, a city allied with Athens (Thuc., ii . 2... more »-6). Peloponnesian invasion of Attica (Pericles, xxxiii.). Athenian naval expedition round Peloponnesus ; occupation of Egina; invasion of the Megarid (ib., xxxiv. 1-2). 431 (August) Solar eclipse (ib., xxxv. 1). 430 Second Peloponnesian invasion of Attica (Thuc., ii. 47). Outbreak of the plague at Athens (Pericles, xxxiv. 3). Athenian naval expedition round Peloponnesus and to Potidaea (ib., xxxv. 1, 3). Pericles is deposed from command, tried and fined for malversation in office (ib., xxxv. 4). Surrender of Potidaea (Thuc., ii . 70). 429 (Spring) Reinstatement of Pericles in office (Pericles, xxxvii . 1). (Autumn) Death of Pericles (ib., xxxviii.). HI. OUTLINE SKETCH OF GREEK HISTORY DURING THE PENTECONTAETIA In the largest sense the Graeco-Persian wars extend from the Scythian expedition of Darius (514 B. c.), or, perhaps, even from the subjugation of the Asiatic Greeks by the Persians under Cyrus (538), to the conquest of Persia by Alexander (331), ? two centuries in the round. The Persians have the offensive down to 479, when the victories of the Greeks at Plataea and Mycale put a stop forever to the invasion of Europe by Orientalism. Mycale itself marks the transition on the part of the Greeks from defensive to offensive warfare against the Persian Empire. This offensive warfare was waged at the very outset by the same Hellenicalliance, headed by Sparta and Athens, which had triumphed at Salamis and Plataea. But soon Sparta fell back, and suffered Athens at the head of her Delian League to bring it to its glorious culmination in Cimon's double victor)' by land and sea at the Eurymedon (467)...« less