athenians

Life events

• The Athenians chose freedom for Hellas and rallied the remaining Greeks against the Persians.(Book 7 · §137–142 · 📍 Hellas)
  • “these were they who, preferring that Hellas should continue to exist in freedom, roused up all of Hellas which remained”
• The Athenians consulted the Oracle and received a prophecy foretelling destruction and urging them to flee.(Book 7 · §137–142 · 📍 Delphi)
  • “the Pythian prophetess, whose name was Aristonike, uttered to them this oracle:”
• Timon advised the Athenians to consult the Oracle again as suppliants.(Book 7 · §137–142 · 📍 Delphi)
  • With: Timon
  • “Timon the son of Androbulos, a man of the Delphians in reputation equal to the first, counselled them to take a suppliant's bough and to approach the second time and consult the Oracle as suppliants.”
• The Athenians returned as suppliants and received a second oracle promising a wooden bulwark.(Book 7 · §137–142 · 📍 Delphi)
  • “the prophetess gave them a second oracle as follows:”
• The Athenians debated the meaning of the second oracle, with some identifying the wooden bulwark as ships.(Book 7 · §137–142 · 📍 Athens)
  • “when the messengers after their return made report to the people, many various opinions were expressed by persons inquiring into the meaning of the oracle”

Book 5 · §70–77

• with Timesitheos (The Athenians imprisoned Timesitheos to be put to death.) “the rest of the men the Athenians laid in bonds to be put to death, and among them Timesitheos the Delphian”

Book 5 · §93–94

• enemies with mytilenians “for the Mytilenians and Athenians carried on war for a long time, having their strongholds respectively at Achilleion and at Sigeion, the one side demanding that the place be restored to them, and the Athenians on the other hand not admitting this demand”

Book 8 · §130–136

• with Alexander (son of Amyntas) (The Athenians are a group, not an individual; no person-pair relation extracted.) “Alexander was a public guest-friend and benefactor of the Athenians”

Book 9 · §111–119

• with Xanthippos (Xanthippos was their commander.) “while the Athenians and Xanthippos their commander determined to stay behind there and to make an attempt upon the Chersonese.”

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