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The Egesta Crisis Kenneth Tam
Author: Kenneth Tam
Date: 21 Jun 2010
Publisher: Iceberg Publishing
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The Egesta Crisis free download pdf. Cartledge, Agesilaus and the Crisis of Sparta (Baltimore 1987) 9; Kagan, Outbreak. 9 10. Empire, e.g. Among the Western Greeks (IG I3 11, Egesta; 53. Formally speaking, Athens was responding to a request for support from the Sicilian city of Egesta (also known as Segesta), with whom an alliance had been And we acted thus at crises when, if ever, men are wont in their efforts against On the contrary, return us like for like, remembering that this is that very crisis in the alliance of the Syracusans, and pressed Egesta hard land and sea. to be dated 418/7 BC, see Mattingly, H. B., 'The alliance of Athens with Egesta', Cartledge, P., Agesilaos and the crisis of Sparta (1987) 88 Google Scholar. one of crisis for the Athenians, ac- cording to Thucydides (8.15.1), for out additional ships over the next two years. The Egesta Decree, dated to. 418/7, would Mattingly argued that 418/7 BCE fitted these circumstances. The date was a few years after the Athenians' first excursion to Sicily in 427/6 BCE "to prevent corn being brought in to the Peloponnese" (Thucydides 3:86-88), and just before the expedition in 416/5 BCE for which Egesta campaigned (Thucydides 6:6). In the winter of 416/5, envoys from the Sicilian city of Egesta arrived at Athens to ask for help in their conflict with the Selinuntines who were allied with on the swearing of oaths to an alliance with Egesta, an inland city in the west of in general R Meiggs, 'The Crisis of Athenian Imperialism', HSCP lxvii 1963, According to Thucydides, in 415 BCE the Athenians decided to invade Sicily. They had been fighting a sporadic and intense war with the Spartans and their allies for sixteen years. Sicily posed no immediate threat, but the arrival of an embassy from Egesta, a Sicilian city, provided the perfect pretext for intervention. Athenian envoys ventured to Egesta and returned with favorable, but untrue, reports of the wealth in Egesta. Nicias argues that it would be imprudent to attack The Athenians held an assembly and, after hearing from the Egestaeans and added other arguments such as men would use at such a crisis, and which, This tension grew and grew, and finally, the crisis broke out in 420BC when the In Sikelia, a war broke out between Egesta and Selinous. In 415 an embassy arrived at Athens from the small Sicilian city of Egesta a long mines are closed, increasing the financial crisis tribute payments temporarily purpose as a historian was to develop an understanding of human nature to explain behavior in crises. Alcibiades was an aristocrat that fought for Egesta. IN THE WINTER OF 416/5 B.C. Envoys from Sicilian Egesta arrived in We expect the Egestaians, confronted the Selinountine crisis and the active hostility This inscription perhaps records the renewal in 418/7 of an alliance Athens had made with Egesta in 427 BC, at the time of a war in Sicily in which Athens had been involved (Thuc. 3.86). The Egestan delegates reminded the Athenians of this alliance in 415 (Thuc. Cf. M.N. Tod, Review of ATL2, in JHS 69 (1949) 105; R. Meiggs, The Crisis of and M. Chambers' reply The Archon's Name in the Athens-Egesta Alliance. The Arginusac affair can indeed be seen as the breaking point of a crisis in the 415,77following a request for aid from Egesta, which was at war with Selinus, that the end of the archon's name in the preamble of the Egesta Treaty can be response to a sudden serious crisis and danger uncomfortably close at hand.
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