In 371 BC at a Panhellenic congress of the Lacedaemonian allies, he voted in support of the Athenians ' claim and joined other Greeks in voting to help Athens to recover possession of Amphipolis.

After staying a time with his allies at Samos, Antony removed to Athens.

These forces defeated the last major hoplite army, at the Battle of Chaeronea ( 338 BC ), after which Athens and its allies joined the Macedonian empire.

At the same time, Athens greatly increased its own power ; a number of its formerly independent allies were reduced, over the course of the century, to the status of tribute-paying subject states of the Delian League.

The Spartans summoned forces from all of their allies, including Athens, to help them suppress the revolt.

Athens sent out a sizable contingent ( 4, 000 hoplites ), but upon its arrival, this force was dismissed by the Spartans, while those of all the other allies were permitted to remain.

In 459 BC, Athens took advantage of a war between its neighbors Megara and Corinth, both Spartan allies, to conclude an alliance with Megara, giving the Athenians a critical foothold on the Isthmus of Corinth.

The Spartans, whose intervention would have been the trigger for a massive war to determine the fate of the empire, called a congress of their allies to discuss the possibility of war with Athens.

In the 17th year of the war, word came to Athens that one of their distant allies in Sicily was under attack from Syracuse.

Following the destruction of the Sicilian Expedition, Lacedaemon encouraged the revolt of Athens's tributary allies, and indeed, much of Ionia rose in revolt against Athens.

Facing starvation and disease from the prolonged siege, Athens surrendered in 404 BC, and its allies soon surrendered as well.

Under Spartan leadership, the League defeated Athens and its allies in 404 BC.

Using his status as an exile from Athens to travel freely among the Peloponnesian allies, he was able to view the war from the perspective of both sides.

His great contribution to history and historiography is contained in this one dense history of the 27-year war between Athens and Sparta, each with their respective allies.

* 431 BC: The Peloponnesian War begins between Sparta and Athens and their allies.

* 429 BC: Battle of Chalcis — Chalcidians and their allies are defeated by Athens.

* Many of Athens ' former allies are now ruled by boards of ten ( decarchy ), often reinforced with garrisons under a Spartan commander ( Harmost ).

* Athens allies itself with Thebes and forms the Second Athenian Empire.

The Peloponnesian War, the large scale Greek civil war between Athens and Sparta and their allies, is a case in point.

They henceforth became the dependent allies of Athens ( see Delian League ), though still retaining their autonomy, which they preserved until the peace of Antalcidas in 387 BC once more placed them as well as the other Greek cities in Asia under the nominal dominion of Persia.

Allied with Syracuse at the time of the fateful intervention of Athens in the west in 427, Lipara withstood the assault of Athenians and their allies.

Many of Athens ' former allies were now ruled by boards of ten ( decarchy ), often reinforced with garrisons under a Spartan commander ( harmost ).

The Greek fleet is victorious against the Persians and their allies and then returns to Athens.

* The democracy of Athens is overthrow by the oligarchic extremists, Antiphon, Theramenes, Peisander and Phrynichus in an effort by the oligarcists to exert more control over the conduct of the war with Sparta and its allies.

* Alcibiades helps stir up revolts amongst Athens ' allies in Ionia, on the west coast of Asia Minor.

Thus while Athens was increasing her navy with the funds they contributed, a revolt always found itself without enough resources or experienced leaders for war.

The League found itself unable to create a new political system, until the league summoned the Cretan politician Eleutherios Venizelos to Athens as its political adviser.

In 403 BC, Athens took over the Ionian spelling system and with it the vocalic use of H ( even though it still also had the / h / sound itself at that time ).

Doubtless there is a considerable historical element in the legend, perhaps in the Phoenician origin of Europa ; it is possible that not only Athens, but Mycenae itself, were once culturally bound to the kings of Knossos, as Minoan objects appear at Mycenaean sites.

The economic costs of the war were felt all across Greece ; poverty became widespread in the Peloponnese, while Athens found itself completely devastated, and never regained its pre-war prosperity.

The rebels quickly secured the support of a Persian satrap, and Athens found itself facing the prospect of revolts throughout the empire.

While this invasion deprived Athenians of the productive land around their city, Athens itself was able to maintain access to the sea, and did not suffer much.

Revolt and faction threatened in Athens itself.

The work of the IOC increasingly focused on the planning the 1896 Athens Games, and de Coubertin played a background role as Greek authorities took the lead in logistical organisation of the Games in Greece itself, offering technical advice such as a sketch of a design of a velodrome to be used in cycling competitions.

In the late 5th century BC, Syracuse found itself at war with Athens, which sought more resources to fight the Peloponnesian War.

In Athens itself, he lost favour by building a sanctuary of Artemis, with the epithet Aristoboulë (" of good counsel ") near his home, a blatant reference to his own role in delivering Greece from the Persian invasion.

Athens supports Plataea while Sparta aligns itself with Thebes.

Olynthus had at first allied itself with Philip, but later shifted its allegiance to Athens.

In Greece, endeavours were made during the 1980s and 1990s to organise such an event, but it was not until 2005 that Athens Pride established itself.

Athens, like other Greek city states in the 7th Century BC, was faced with increasing population pressures and by about 525 BC it was able to feed itself only in ' good years '.

In the wake of this defeat, Athens found itself facing a crisis of unprecedented magnitude.

The threat from the Spartan army leads Pericles to arrange, by bribery and by negotiation, that Athens will give up its mainland possessions and confine itself to a largely maritime empire.

Although Ephialtes maintains that Sparta is Athens ' rival for power and should be left to fend for itself, Kimon's view prevails.

The 5th-century poet Telestes doubted that virginal Athena could have been motivated by such vanity, but in the 2nd century AD, on the Acropolis of Athens itself, the voyager Pausanias saw " a statue of Athena striking Marsyas the Silenos for taking up the flutes that the goddess wished to be cast away for good.

He was the founder and the first king of Athens itself, though preceded in the region by the earth-born king Actaeus of Attica.

It is called « Lycian » not after Lycia itself, but after its identification with a lost work described by Lucian as being on show in the Lykeion, one of the gymnasia of Athens.

* In a search for a balance of power against the now powerful Thebes, Athens responds to an appeal for help from Sparta and allies itself with its traditional enemy.

By 395 BC, Thebes, alongside Athens, Corinth, and Argos, found itself arrayed against Sparta ( a former ally ) in the Corinthian War.