Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-mlc7c Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-10T12:27:10.024Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

3 - The Delian League to 449 b. c.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2008

By
P. J. Rhodes
Edited by
David M. Lewis ,
John Boardman ,
J. K. Davies  and
M. Ostwald
P. J. Rhodes
Affiliation:
University of Durham
Get access

Summary

THE FOUNDATION OF THE LEAGUE

It is unlikely that the Greeks who fought against the Persians at Plataea in 479 entered into any commitment relevant to this chapter. There may well be authentic material behind the various texts of an oath said to have been sworn before the battle (Tod, GHI 204, 21–51; Lycurg. Leoc. 80–1; Diod. XI.29.2–3: Theopomp. FGrH 115 f 153 rejected it as an Athenian fabrication), but the clause requiring temples destroyed by the Persians to be left in ruins does not appear in the inscribed version and is hard to accept. After the battle the Plataeans were promised freedom from attack on condition that they cared for the graves of the fallen (Thuc. II.72, III.58.4), but the Greek festival of freedom appears to be a Hellenistic institution, and Plutarch's combination with this of a Greek force to wage war against the barbarian is unlikely to represent a decision taken after Plataea (Diod. XI.29.1; Plut. Arist. 21.1–2).

However, if we may believe Herodotus, the question of carrying the war back to Persian territory and liberating Greeks under Persian rule was raised in 480–479. Thoughts of the future attributed to Themistocles (VIII.108.4, 109.5) may be suspect, but there is no need to doubt the envoys appealing for the liberation of Ionia early in 479 (VIII.132), or the futher appeal from Samos later in the year (IX.90). After the battle of Mycale, we are told, the Greeks considered abandoning Ionia and giving the Ionians new homes in Greece: the proposal was supported by the Peloponnesians, but successfully resisted by the Athenians, who claimed a special relationship with the Ionians; after which Samos, Chios, Lesbos and ‘the other islanders who were campaigning along with the Greeks’ (but not, it appears, any mainlanders) were admitted to the Greek alliance (IX. 106).

Keywords

Egyptian kingsAthenian colonyDelian leagueSpartan imperalism
Type
Chapter
Information
The Cambridge Ancient History , pp. 34 - 61
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1992

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Accame, S. ‘Note storiche su epigrafi attiche del v secolo’, Riv. di Filol. 80 (1952)Google Scholar
Andrewes, A. ‘The opposition to Perikles’, Journal of Hellenic Studies 98 (1978)Google Scholar
Badian, E. ‘The Peace of Callias’, Journal of Hellenic Studies 107 (1987)Google Scholar
Badian, E. ‘Towards a chronology of the Pentekontaetia down to the renewal of the Peace of Callias’, Echos du Monde Classique/Classical Views n.s. 7 (1988)Google Scholar
Barns, J. ‘Cimon and the first Athenian expedition to Cyprus’, Historia 2 (1953–4)Google Scholar
Barron, J. P. ‘Religious propaganda of the Delian League’, Journal of Hellenic Studies 84 (1964)Google Scholar
Barron, J. P. ‘The fifth-century horoi of Aigina’, Journal of Hellenic Studies 103 (1983)Google Scholar
Blackman, D. J. ‘The Athenian navy and allied naval contributions in the Pentecontaetia’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 10 (1969)Google Scholar
Boersma, J. S. Athenian Building Policy from 561/0 to 405/4 B.C. Groningen, 1970
Bradeen, D. W. and McGregor, M. F. Studies in Fifth-Century Attic Epigraphy. Norman, 1973
Bruneau, P. and Ducat, J. Guide de Délos. Paris, 1965
Brunt, P. A. ‘The Hellenic league against Persia’, Historia 2 (1953–4)Google Scholar
Brunt, P. A. ‘Athenian settlements abroad in the fifth century b.c. ’, in A 34,
Busolt, G. Griechische Geschichte bis zur Schlacht bei Chaeroneia. I2, II2, III. i, III. ii (to 404). Gotha,
Camp, J. McK. II . ‘Greek inscriptions’, Hesperia. 43 (1974)Google Scholar
Cartledge, P. A. ‘A new lease of life for Lichas Son of Arkesilas?’, Liverpool Classical Monthly 9 (1984)Google Scholar
Cavaignac, E. ‘Les Dékarchies de Lysandre’, Revue des études historiques 90 (1924)Google Scholar
Chambers, M. H. ‘Four hundred sixty talents’, Cl. Phil. 53 (1958)Google Scholar
Courby, F. Exploration archéologique de Délos, XII: Les temples d' Apollon. Paris, 1931
Culham, P. ‘The Delian League: bicameral or unicameral’, American Journal of Ancient History 3 (1978)Google Scholar
de Ste Croix, G. E. M. The Origins of the Peloponnesian War. London, 1972
Dinsmoor, W. B. Observations on the Hephaisteion (Hesperia. Supp. 5). Princeton, 1941
Dunst, G. ‘Archaische Inschriften und Dokumente der Pentekontaetie aus Samos’, Ath. Mitt. 87 (1972)Google Scholar
Eddy, S. K. ‘Four hundred sixty talents once more’, Cl. Phil. 63 (1968)Google Scholar
Erxleben, E. ‘Die Kleruchien auf Euböa und Lesbos und die Methoden der attischen Herrschaft im 5. Jh.’, Klio 57 (1975)Google Scholar
Etienne, R. and Piérart, M. ‘Un décret du Koinon des Hellénes à Platées en l'honneur de Glaucon, fils d'Etéoclès d'Athènes’. Bulletin de correspondance bellénique 99 (1975)Google Scholar
Evans, J. A. S. ‘The Settlement of Artaphernes’, Cl. Phil. 71 (1976)Google Scholar
Finley, M. I. ‘The Athenian Empire: a balance sheet’, in Garnsey, P. D. A. and Whittaker, C. R. (eds.) Imperialism in the Ancient World
French, A. ‘Athenian ambitions and the Delian Alliance’, Phoenix 33 (1979)Google Scholar
French, A. ‘The tribute of the allies’, Historia 21 (1972)Google Scholar
Frost, F. J. ‘Some documents in Plutarch's Lives’, Class. et Med. 22 (1961)Google Scholar
Gehrke, H.-J. ‘Zur Geschichte Milets in der Mitte des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr.’, Historia 29 (1980)Google Scholar
Giovannini, A. and Gottlieb, G. Thukydides und die Anfänge der athenischen Arche. SB Heidelberg, 1980, no. 7
Glotz, G. with Cohen, R. Histoire grecque 11. Paris, 1938
Gomme, A. W., Andrewes, A. and Dover, K. J. A Historical Commentary on Thucydides
Habicht, C. ‘Falsche Urkunden zur Geschichte Athens im Zeitalter der Perserkriege’, Hermes 89 (1961)Google Scholar
Hammond, N. G. L. ‘The origins and nature of the Athenian alliance of 478/7 b.c. ’, JHs 87 (1967)Google Scholar
Henry, A. S. ‘The dating of fifth-century Attic inscriptions’, California Studies in Classical Antiquity II (1978)Google Scholar
Herrmann, P. ‘Zu den Beziehungen zwischen Athen und Milet im 5-Jahrhundert’, Klio 52 (1970)Google Scholar
Highby, L. I. The Erythrae Decree: Contributions to the Early History of the Delian League and the Peloponnesian Confederacy (Klio Beiheft 36). Leipzig, 1936
Holladay, A. J. ‘The détente of Kallias?’, Historia 35 (1986)Google Scholar
Jackson, A. H. ‘The original purpose of the Delian League’, Historia 18 (1969)Google Scholar
Jacoby, F. ‘Some remarks on Ion of Chios’, Classical Quarterly 41 (1947)Google Scholar
Jones, A. H. M. ‘Two synods of the Delian and Peloponnesian Leagues’, PCPhS n.s. 2 (1952–3)Google Scholar
Karavites, P. ‘' Ελευθ ερία and αὐτονομία in fifth-century interstate relations’, Revue internationale des droits de l'antiquité ser. 3, 29 (1982)Google Scholar
Larsen, J. A. O. ‘The constitution and original purpose of the Delian League’, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 51 (1940)Google Scholar
Larsen, J. A. O. ‘The constitution of the Peloponnesian League I’, Cl. Phil. 28 (1933)Google Scholar
Lévy, E. Athènes devant la défaite de 404: histoire d'une crise idéologique. (Bibl. Éc. fr. Ath. et Rome 225). Paris, 1976
Lewis, D. M. ‘The origins of the First Peloponnesian War’, in Shrimpton, G. S. and McCargar, D. J. (eds.) Classical Contributions: Studies in Honour of Malcolm Francis McGregor. Locust Valley, 1981 Google Scholar
Libourel, J. M. ‘The Athenian disaster in Egypt’, American Journal of Philology 92 (1971)Google Scholar
Maier, F. G. ‘Factoids in ancient history: the case of fifth-century Cyprus’, Journal of Hellenic Studies 105 (1985)Google Scholar
Mattingly, H. B. ‘The growth of Athenian imperialism’, Historia 12 (1963)Google Scholar
Mattingly, H. B. ‘Periclean imperialism’, in A 34,
Meiggs, R. ‘The crisis of Athenian imperialism’, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 67 (1963)Google Scholar
Meiggs, R. ‘The dating of fifth-century Attic inscriptions’, Journal of Hellenic Studies 86 (1966)Google Scholar
Meiggs, R. ‘The growth of Athenian imperialism’, Journal of Hellenic Studies 63 (1943)Google Scholar
Meiggs, R. The Athenian Empire. Oxford, 1972
Meritt, B. D. and Wade-Gery, H. T. ‘The dating of documents to the mid-fifth century’, Journal of Hellenic Studies 82 (1962)Google Scholar
Meritt, B. D., Wade-Gery, H. T. and McGregor, M. F. The Athenian Tribute-Lists I–IV. Cambridge, MA, and Princeton, 1939–53
Meritt, B. D. ‘The tribute quota list of 454/3 b.c. ’, Hesperia. 41 (1972)Google Scholar
Meyer, H. D. ‘Vorgeschichte und Gründung des delisch-attischen Seebundes’, Historia 12 (1963)Google Scholar
Milton, M. P. ‘The date of Thucydides' synchronism of the siege of Naxos with Themistokles' flight’, Historia 28 (1979)Google Scholar
Murray, O. ‘‘Ο’ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΣ ΔΑ㎣ΜΟΣ’, Historia 15 (1966)Google Scholar
Nesselhauf, H. Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der delisch-attischen Symmachie (Klio Beiheft 30). Leipzig, 1933
Ostwald, M. Autonomia: its Genesis and Early History (American Classical Studies II) [U.S.A.], 1982
Piérart, M. ‘Athènes et Milet’, Mus. Helv. 40 (1983)Google Scholar
Piérart, M. ‘Milet dans la première liste de tributs’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 15 (1974)Google Scholar
Pistorius, T. Hegemoniestreben und Autonomiesicherung in der griechischen Vertragspolitik klassischer und hellenistischer Zeit. Frankfurt, 1985
Pouilloux, J. and Salviat, F. ‘Les archontes de Thasos’, Πρακτικὰ του Η´ διεθνους συνεδρίου ‘Ελληνικης καὶ Λατικης’ Επιγραφικης Proceedings of the Eighth Epigraphic Congress 1982 1233–58. Athens, 1984 Google Scholar
Pouilloux, J. and Salviat, F. ‘Lichas, lacédémonien, archonte à Thasos, et le livre VIII de Thucydide’, Comptes-rendus de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles lettres (1983)Google Scholar
Pouilloux, J. Rechercbes sur l'histoire et les cultes de Thasos 1 (Etudes thasiennes 3). Paris, 1954
Pritchett, W. K. ‘The transfer of the Delian Treasury’, Historia 18 (1969)Google Scholar
Raaflaub, K. ‘Beute, Vergeltung, Freiheit? Zur Zielsetzung des delisch-attischen Seebundes’, Chiron 9 (1979)Google Scholar
Raubitschek, A. E. ‘Athens and Halikyai’, Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 75 (1944)Google Scholar
Raubitschek, A. E. ‘The Covenant of Plataea’, Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 91 (1960)Google Scholar
Rawlings, H. R. III. ‘Thucydides on the purpose of the Delian League’, Phoenix 31 (1977)Google Scholar
Rhodes, P. J. ‘Thucydides on Pausanias and Themistocles’, Historia 19 (1970)Google Scholar
Rhodes, P. J. The Athenian Empire. (G&R New Surveys in the Classics 17). Oxford, 1985
Robertson, N. D. ‘Government and society at Miletus, 525–442 b.c. ’, Phoenix 41 (1987)Google Scholar
Robertson, N. D. ‘The true nature of the “Delian League”, 478–461b.c. ’, American Journal of Ancient History 5 (1980)Google Scholar
Ruschenbusch, E. ‘Das Machtpotential der Bündner im ersten attischen Seebund’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 53 (1983)Google Scholar
Ruschenbusch, E. ‘Tribut und Bürgerzahl im ersten attischen Seebund’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 53 (1983)Google Scholar
Salmon, P. La politique égyptienne d'Athènes: VIe et Ve siècles. Brussels, 1965
Salviat, F. ‘Les colonnes initiales du catalogue des théores…’, Thasiaca (BCH Supp. 5). Paris, 1979 Google Scholar
Schauenberg, K. Εὐρυμέδον εἰμι Ath. Mitt. 90 (1975)Google Scholar
Sealey, B. R. I. ‘The origin of the Delian League’, in A 34,
Siewert, P. Der Eid von Plataiai (Vestigia 16). Munich, 1972
Smart, J. D. ‘Athens and Egesta’, Journal of Hellenic Studies 92 (1972)Google Scholar
Smart, J. D. ‘Kimon's capture of Eion’, Journal of Hellenic Studies 87 (1967)Google Scholar
Unz, R. K. ‘The chronology of the Pentakontaetia’, Classical Quarterly n.s. 36 (1986)Google Scholar
Unz, R. K. ‘The surplus of the Athenian phoros ’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 26 (1985)Google Scholar
Walbank, M. B. ‘Criteria for the dating of fifth-century Attic inscriptions’, in A 9,
Walbank, M. B. Athenian Proxenies of the Fifth Century b.c. Toronto–Sarasota, 1978
Welwei, K.-W. ‘“Demos” and “Plethos” in athenischen Volksbeschlüssen um 450 v. Chr.’, Historia 35 (1986)Google Scholar
West, A. B. ‘The tribute lists and the non-tributary members of the Delian League’, American Historical Review 35 (1929/30)Google Scholar
Westlake, H. D. ‘Thucydides and the Athenian disaster in Egypt’, Cl. Phil. 45 (1950) (= A 123, 61–73)Google Scholar
White, M. E. ‘Some Agiad dates: Pausanias and his sons’, Journal of Hellenic Studies 84 (1964)Google Scholar
Wick, T. E. ‘A note on the date of the Athenian-Egestan alliance’, Journal of Hellenic Studies 95 (1975)Google Scholar
Wick, T. E. ‘The date of the Athenian-Egestan alliance’, Cl. Phil. 76 (1981)Google Scholar
Woodhead, A. G. ‘The institution of the Hellenotamiae ’, Journal of Hellenic Studies 79 (1959)Google Scholar
Woodhead, A. G. ‘West's panel of ship payers’, in A 9,

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×