A Popular History of Greece From the Earliest Period to the Incorporation With
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The Truce gave Athens a season for recruiting her energies and preparing for the struggle which was impending between her and Sparta ; and the economic administration and wise measures of Pericles, whose authority was now at its height, in a great degree restored her. Pericles aimed at securing for Athens the first posi- tion in Hellas, both by land and sea ; he had directed the main energies of his country towards the acquisition of such predomi- nance in central and northern Greece as would m...ake Athens a match for Sparta by land ; but, though his designs had met with great success at first, the disastrous course of events had taught him that he had overrated the power of Athens, and that he must henceforward aim at preserving and consolidating, not enlarging, her dominions. One part of his design, to make Athens the intel- lectual capital of Hellas, was already accomplished. She was the centre of Hellenic literature, and the magnificent works of Pericles, - 264 TUB ATHENIAN HEGEMONY, 477-431 B.
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