HIS2102 Lecture 8: Athens, sparta and persia- feb 22nd 2016
Document Summary
February 22nd 2016: the league started moving against fellow greeks. When there was no crime being commited by simply atheniens taking offence: the delopian pirate of scyros, has been forced out of control of the island, the delopians took control of the island. They were not good at anything else except for piracy: a group of cities gathered together and sent a message to the delopians to knock it off but also to give back what they had taken. The delopians refuse: the native of scyros send message to cimon (the athenien), to help and as reward they can have the island. They establish a clerurque, in qhich they sent atheniens to the island without them losing their citizenship. They force carystos to surrender and force to enter the league. The arguments for the attack on carystos are most likely not as simple as that.