According to Thucydides, Pericles may have declared in a funeral oration:

According to Thucydides, the official aim of the League was to " avenge the wrongs they suffered by ravaging the territory of the king.

According to Thucydides, although the Spartans took no action at this time, they " secretly felt aggrieved ".

According to Pausanias, someone named Oenobius was able to get a law passed allowing Thucydides to return to Athens, presumably sometime shortly after the city's surrender and the end of the war in 404 BC.

According to Irving Kristol, self-described founder of American Neoconservatism, Thucydides wrote " the favorite neoconservative text on foreign affairs "; and Thucydides is a required text at the Naval War College, an American institution located in Rhode Island.

According to Thucydides, who wrote within living memory of the events, the ship eventually landed safely at Ephesus, where Themistocles disembarked.

According to Thucydides, the trireme was introduced to Greece by the Corinthians in the late 8th century BC, and the Corinthian Ameinocles built four such ships for the Samians.

According to Thucydides, the Sicani people arrived from the Iberian Peninsula ( perhaps Catalonia ).

According to Thucydides, on the other hand, most Athenians continued to live in rural settlements right up until the Peloponnesian War.

According to Aristotle ( Politics ) and Thucydides ( History of the Peloponnesian War ), Italus was the eponymous of Italy ( Italia ).

( According to Thucydides in speeches attributed to Archidamus at the famous Debate at Sparta in 432 BC ).

According to Gualtiero Calboli, Hegesias and his fellow Asiatics rejected Attic examples ( and in particular the example of Thucydides ) in favor of a return to " the models of Ionic and sophistic prose.

According to Lord Norwich, he " has been compared to Tacitus and Thucydides.

According to Thucydides, the helots and perioeci of Thouria and Aithaia took advantage of the earthquake to revolt and establish a position on Ithome.

According to Plutarch and Thucydides ( 1. 126 ), they were persuaded by the archons to leave the temple and stand trial after being assured that their lives would be spared.

According to Thucydides, this fleet sailed to Cyprus and " subdued most of the island ".

According to Thucydides, the official aim of the League was to " avenge the wrongs they suffered by ravaging the territory of the king ".

According to Thucydides, it was largely the Carians who settled the Cyclades prior to the Minoans.

According to Thucydides, Hippias ordered the Greeks to lay down their ceremonial arms and then had them searched, arresting any found with concealed weapons.

According to the Ancient Greek historian Thucydides, the Athenian citizens at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War ( 5th century BC ) numbered 40, 000, making with their families a total of 140, 000 people in all.

According to Thucydides the true cause of the war was Sparta's fear of Athens ' growing empire.

) According to Thucydides, this event took place 245 years after the foundation of Megara, and may therefore be placed about 483 BC.

According to the Greek historians Herodotus and Thucydides, a royal dynasty emerged from among the Odrysian tribe in Thrace around the end of the 5th century BC, which came to dominate much of the area and peoples between the Danube and the Aegean for the next century.

According to Herodotus, the Spartans attributed their conquest of Arcadia to their theft of the bones of Orestes from the Arcadian town of Tegea.

According to these sources, the Spartans believed that the love of an older, accomplished aristocrat for an adolescent was essential to his formation as a free citizen.

According to Herodotus ( IX, 28 – 29 ), helots were seven times as numerous as Spartans.

According to one account, Rhadamanthus ruled Crete before Minos, and gave the island an excellent code of laws, which the Spartans were believed to have copied.

According to Herodotus he was killed for an apparently unrelated reason by Athenades of Trachis, around 470 BC ; but the Spartans rewarded Athenades all the same.

According to the Spartans, however, the image of Artemis was transported by them to Laconia, where the goddess was worshipped as Artemis Orthia.

According to another story, he was taken prisoner in a war between the Spartans and Cnossians, and put to death by his captors, because he refused to prophesy favourably for them.

According to the account, the Sabine habits of belligerence ( aggressive or warlike behavior ) and frugality ( prudence in avoiding waste ) were known to have derived from the Spartans.

According to Herodotus " The Spartans sent the men with Leonidas on ahead so that the rest of the allies would see them and march with no fear of defeat, instead of medizing like the others if they learned that the Spartans were delaying.

According to Pausanias, the Athenians sent the lame, mentally defective teacher / poet to Sparta as a compromise, wishing to obey the oracle, which had demanded an Athenian, but not wishing to help the Spartans in their war, which would have required a more capable individual.

According to Philodemus, who presented it as a little-known fact, Tyrtaeus was honoured above others because of his music, not just his verses, Pollux stated that he introduced Spartans to three choruses based on age ( boys, young and old men ) and some modern scholars in fact argue that he composed his elegies in units of five couplets each, alternating between exhortation and reflection, in a kind of responsion similar to Greek choral poetry.

According to Herodotus, the Spartans, who were at that time celebrating the festival of Hyacinthus, delayed making a decision until they were persuaded by a guest, Chileos of Tegea, who pointed out the danger to all of Greece if the Athenians surrendered.

According to Herodotus, helots were seven times as numerous as Spartans during the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC.

According to Aristotle, the ephors annually declared war on the Helots, thereby allowing Spartans to kill them without fear of religious pollution.

According to Plutarch, upon seeing the Spartans, one of Thebans allegedly told Pelopidas " We are fallen into our enemy's hands ;" to which Pelopidas replied, " And why not they into ours?

According to Plutarch, the Spartans had an iron obolus of four chalkoi.

According to Herodotus, the Spartans, who were at that time celebrating the festival of Hyacinthus, delayed making a decision until they were persuaded by a guest, Chileos of Tegea, who pointed out the danger to all of Greece if the Athenians surrendered.

According to Herodotus, the Spartans sent 45, 000 men -- 5, 000 Spartiates ( full citizen soldiers ), 5, 000 other Lacodaemonian hoplites ( perioeci ) and 35, 000 helots ( seven per Spartiate ).

According to Herodotus, the Spartan army tricked the Argives into believing that the Spartans were going to their evening meal, and when the Argives did the same, the Spartans seized up their arms and attacked them, gaining an overwhelming victory.

According to Diodorus Siculus, more than 600 of the Boeotians and their allies fell, and the Spartans lost 350 men.

According to Herodotus, the Spartans attributed their conquest of Arcadia to their theft of the bones of Orestes from the Arcadian town of Tegea.