The four powers formed a league centered in Corinth and related to Persia. Agesilao, recalled, had to abandon the enterprise of Asia and, having crossed Thrace, Macedonia and northern Greece with his army, he won victory at Coronea (394); but the...
Thus the first great federation between the Greeks collapsed on the basis of the hegemony of a city. That federation was followed by another, founded on the same hegemonic principle, apparently all the more solid the larger it was. Sparta, after...
Aeschylus (525 BC – 456 BC) one of the great Greek tragedy poets ; 490 BC He takes part for Athens in the battle of Marathon against the Persians; 472 BC His drama “The Persians” is premiered in Athens Anakreon (around...
