A Short History of Early Peoples to 1500 A. D., From Cave-Man to Columbus
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Sj)arta at once bouglit tlie aid of their gold by Ix'traying the freedom of the Asiatic Greeks, — to whom th<' Athenian name had been a shield for sev^ty years. Persian funds then SPARTAN SUPREMACY, 404-371 B.C. 127 built fleet after fleet for Sparta ; and slowly Athens was ex- hausted, despite some brilliant victories. In 405, her last fleet Fall of was surprised and captured at Aegospotami (Goat Rivers), -^t^^^s Apparently the officers had been plotting for an oligarchic revolution ; and the sailors had been discouraged and demoral- ized, even if they were not actually betrayed by their com- manders. Lysander, the Spartan commander, in cold blood put to death the four thousand Athenian citizens among the captives.
This slaughter marks the end. Athens still held out, despair- ing but stubborn, until starved into submission by a terrible siege. Corinth and Thebes wished to raze it from the earth, but Sparta had no mind ]to do away with so useful a check upon those cities. She compelled Athens to renounce all claims to empire, to give up all alliances, to surrender all her ships but twelve.
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