A History of Greece for High Schools And Academies
A History of Greece for High Schools And Academies
George Willis Botsford
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His chief means to this end was the passage of an act to pay jurors a small fee, probably two obols (six cents) a day, for their service. Thus he and Ephialtes finished the work which Aristeides had begun, and Athens became a pure democracy. Ephialtes was soon afterward assassinated, probably by political enemies. Meantime the Athenian troops at Ithome failed to carry the insurgents' position; and the Lacedaemonian authori- Digitized by VjOOQ IC Athenian Culture 157 ties, suspecting them of tre...achery, insolently dismissed Alliance be- them. Cimon returned to Athens an unpopular man. In ^^**" * *" trying to check the rising tide of democracy, he was met dissolved. with taunts of over-fondness for Sparta and of immorality 46a b.c. in his private life. Athens abandoned his policy, broke loose from Sparta, and began to form an alliance of her own wholly independent of the Peloponnesian League. Cimon*s resistance to these new movements led to his ostracism in 461 b.c. Before the war with Persia the highest Greek culture was Athens on the circumference of Hellas: the colonists had out- ^^^sm civilization, stripped the mother country.
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