npopularity of Athens.
M465 Expeditions against Persia.
M466 Sparta. Rebellion of the Helots. Cimon opposed to Pericles. Alliance
of different states with Athens.
M467 Defeat of Athens on the land and victory on the sea.
M468 Pericles begins his career. Cimon banished.
M469 Hostilities between Sparta and Athens.
M470 Ascendency of Pericles. His character and accomplishments.
M471 The union of the Peireus with Athens.
M472 Magnanimity of Cimon.
M473 Completion of the long walls.
M474 Death of Cimon.
M475 Pericles without rivals.
M476 Aggrandizement of Athens.
M477 Change in the constitution by Pericles. Increase of democratic
power. The dikasts. Ascendency of the democratic power.
M478 Other political changes effected by Pericles.
M479 Improvements of Athens.
M480 The public buildings.
M481 Impulse given to literature. The drama.
M482 AEschylus. Sophocles.
M483 Comedy.
M484 Power of the stage.
M485 The historians and philosophers.
M486 Athens declines in moral power.
M487 Aspasia.
M488 Latter days of Pericles. Policy of Pericles.
M489 Causes of the war.
M490 War between Corcyra and Corinth. Both parties appealed to Athens.
Athens decides in favor of Corcyra.
M491 Intrigues of Sparta.
M492 Pericles urges the Athenians to support a war. Imperious demands of
Sparta. Preparations for war. Wealth of Athens.
M493 Immense array of forces against Athens.
M494 Invasion of Attica. Defensive policy of Pericles.
M495 Retreat of the Lacedaemonians.
M496 Athens sets aside 1,000 talents for future contingencies.
M497 Results of the first year of the war.
M498 The Spartans again invade Attica.
M499 The plague at Athens.
M500 Naval expedition against Sparta. Death of Pericles.
M501 Sparta invokes the aid of the Persians.
M502 Results of the second year of the war.
M503 Siege of Plataea.
M504 Naval defeat of the Spartans.
M505 Results of the third campaign.
M506 Renewed invasion of Athens. Revolt and subjugation of Mitylene.
M507 Surrender of Plataea.
M508 Cruelties of the Athenians at Corcyra.
M509 Nicias. He continues the policy of Pericles. Opposed by Alcibiades
and Cleon.
M510 The fifth year of the war.
M511 The sixth year of the war. Undecisive nature of the conflict. Great
defeat of the Lacedaemonians at Pylus. Sparta seeks peace. Peace
prevented by Cleon.
M512 Renewed hostilities. Surrender of Sphacteria. Triumph of the