The Melians were offered a choice to join the Athenians, or be conquered.

It is said that prior to the destruction of a large number of barbarian ships due to weather during the Persian War, the Athenians offered sacrifices to Boreas and Oreithyia, praying for their assistance.

He is likewise affirmed to have been the first who set up altars and statues of the Gods, offered sacrifices, and instituted marriage among the Athenians, who, before his time, it seems, lived promiscuously.

He denied the accusations and offered to stand trial, but the Athenians did not want to disrupt the expedition any further.

A final portrayal is offered by Aristotle, who, in his Constitution of the Athenians, portrays Theramenes as a moderate and a model citizen ; historians have disputed the origin of this account, with some treating it as a product of 4th century BC propaganda by a moderate " Theramenean " party, while others, such as Phillip Harding, see no evidence for such a tradition and argue that Aristotle's treatment of Theramenes is entirely a product of his own reassessment of the man.

But the town offered a vigorous resistance, and the Athenians were obliged to sail away after a siege of 26 days, during which they had wasted the island.

He offered to return Athens and help rebuild the city if the Athenians would accept a truce, but the Athenians rejected the truce and prepared for another battle.

" With this decision, the Athenians now had the excuse they needed to destroy Melos, even though the Melians offered them peace at the end of the Dialogue by saying, "‘ We invite you to allow us to be friends of yours and enemies to neither side, to make a treaty which shall be agreeable to both you and us, and so to leave our country.

Demades, however, offered a contrary motion, and the Athenians approved it.

The Athenians also argue that, " We have done nothing extraordinary, nothing contrary to human nature in accepting an empire when it was offered to us and then in refusing to give it up.

The Athenians were afraid that their other allies would quickly capitulate, as the Amphipolitans had, if Brasidas offered them favourable terms of peace.

The right of citizenship was offered him by the Athenians, but he refused it.

Before the Battle of Plataea, Mardonius offered the Athenians peace terms, with the hope of dividing the Greek forces.

In 339 BC, the Athenians offered golden shields to the Temple of Apollo in Delphi with inscriptions insulting to the Thebans, who provoked the deputy of Amfissa to oppose to this offer.

Lady Greville, daughter of the late Lord Chancellor Bromley and niece of Sir John Fortescue, was offered twenty pounds by the townsmen to make peace ; ;

On 21 May 1935 Hitler gave a speech in which he proclaimed that German rearmament offered no threat to world peace.

Spain offered peace on condition that the Dutch Republic would withdraw from trading to Asia and America.

Another categorization, offered by Karel Vasak, is that there are three generations of human rights: first-generation civil and political rights ( right to life and political participation ), second-generation economic, social and cultural rights ( right to subsistence ) and third-generation solidarity rights ( right to peace, right to clean environment ).

There he was offered the title of Western Roman Emperor by the Ostrogoths at the same time that envoys of Justinian were arriving to negotiate a peace which would leave the region north of the Po River in Gothic hands.

On April 29, 2006, former Balochistan Chief Minister Taj Muhammad Jamali offered to arranged a meeting between President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf and a loya jirga ( grand jirga ) for peace in Balochistan.

Philip, now in desperate circumstances, offered a truce so that discussions could begin towards a more permanent peace, with the offer that he would return all of the territories except for Gisors.

In trying to make false peace with her brother, Mongfind offered Crimthann a poisoned drink at the Samhain feast, but he challenged her to take a drink from it first.

Another approach to the authorship is that offered by Rashi, consistent with allegorical interpretations, rendering the narrator " he to whom peace belongs ", i. e.: God.

First he made peace with Oda Nobukatsu, and then he offered a truce to Ieyasu.

As early as February 1734 the British and Dutch had offered to mediate peace talks between the various parties.

To the preliminaries of the peace concluded in February 1763 he offered an indignant resistance, considering the terms quite inadequate to the successes that had been gained by the country.

The British mission dealt alternately with the rival ponlop of Paro and the ponlop of Tongsa ( the latter acted on behalf of the Druk Desi ), but Bhutan rejected the peace and friendship treaty it offered.

Darius reportedly offered all of his empire west of the Euphrates River to Alexander in exchange for peace several times, each time denied by Alexander against the advice of his senior commanders.

To achieve such a universe, Ahura Mazda initially offered Angra Mainyu peace, which Angra Mainyu refused.

There, Nasser offered the Fatah movement arms and financial support, but advised Arafat to think of peace with Israel and establishing a Palestinian state comprising the West Bank and the Gaza Strip ; Nasser was effectively ceding his leadership of the " Palestine issue " to Arafat.

They offered peace to the Northumbrians in exchange for their support for Harald's bid for the throne, and demanded further hostages from the whole of Yorkshire.

Another defeat in the same province in 833 forced Theophilos to sue for peace ( Theophilos offered 100, 000 gold dinars and the return of 7, 000 prisoners ), which he obtained the next year, after the death of Al-Ma ' mun.

However, under the influence of Theodore, Michael rejected the peace terms offered by Krum and provoked the capture of Mesembria ( Nesebar ) by the Bulgarians.

Idaeus of the Trojans came for a peace negotiation, and he offered to give back all the treasures Paris stole plus more — everything except Helen.

Bede states that Oswiu offered " an incalculable quantity of regalia and presents as the price of peace ", but that Penda refused.

He set up his position at Balkh and rejected the terms of peace offered by Khush-Newaz.

Aurelian accepted Bahram I's gifts and the terms of peace offered.

He offered to start unconditional peace talks with the Russian government to find a political solution to the conflict in Chechnya.

Pavia offered stiff resistance however, and was only taken after a siege lasting three years.

The new Bourbon King, Louis XVIII, however, granted amnesty to David and even offered him the position of court painter.

On his accession to the imperial throne, Theodosius offered to confirm Demophilus as bishop of the imperial city on the condition of accepting the Nicene Creed ; however, Demophilus refused to abandon his Arian beliefs, and was immediately ordered to give up his churches and leave Constantinople.

According to a very different account by an ancient grammarian, Herodotus refused to begin reading his work at the festival of Olympia until some clouds offered him a bit of shade, by which time however the assembly had dispersed-thus the proverbial expression " Herodotus and his shade " to describe any man who misses his opportunity through delay.

Galileo, however, felt that the descriptive content of the technical disciplines warranted philosophical interest, particularly because mathematical analysis of astronomical observations — notably the radical analysis offered by astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus concerning the relative motions of the Sun, Earth, Moon, and planets — indicated that philosophers ' statements about the nature of the universe could be shown to be in error.

What little strategic value Albania offered the Soviet Union, however, gradually shrank as nuclear arms technology developed.

Many proposals were offered for the Louvre's renovation into a museum, however none was agreed on.

They became so popular, however, that they were soon being offered as separate productions.

There is another interpretation, however, according to which these ostraka were prepared beforehand by enterprising businessmen who offered to them for sale to citizens who could not easily inscribe the desired names for themselves or who simply wished to save time.

Contemporary scanners can estimate attenuation using integrated x-ray CT equipment, however earlier equipment offered a crude form of CT using a gamma ray ( positron emitting ) source and the PET detectors.

While long-distance inland calls have been offered by calling cards, by the mid-2000s conventional carriers reduced their rates to be competitive ; however in many countries calling-card type indirect services can be much cheaper than normal calls.

Bahrain offered great potential wealth because of the extensive pearls found in its waters, however, in 1782, war broke out between the Zubara-based Al-Khalifa trading clan of the Bani Utbah tribe and the Madhkurs.

In January 1965 Patrick Gordon Walker resigned as Foreign Secretary and in the ensuing reshuffle Wilson offered Jenkins the Department for Education and Science ; however.

For example, Sudan historically offered habitat for the endangered Painted Hunting Dog, Lycaon pictus ; however.

F. R. Leavis had rubbished Scott, seeing him as a thoroughly bad novelist and a thoroughly bad influence ( The Great Tradition ); Marilyn Butler, however, offered a political reading of the fiction of the period that found a great deal of genuine interest in his work ( Romantics, Revolutionaries, and Reactionaries ).

Contrasting the European conquest of North America with that of Australia, Roosevelt wrote: " The natives Australia were so few in number and of such a low type, that they practically offered no resistance at all, being but little more hindrance than an equal number of ferocious beasts "; however, the Native Americans were " the most formidable savage foes ever faced ever encountered by colonists of European stock.

The College offered Morgan a full professorship ; however, he chose to stay at Johns Hopkins and was awarded a relatively large

Why hydrogen bromide exhibited both Markovnikov as well as reversed-order, or anti-Markovnikov, addition, however, was not understood until Morris S. Kharasch offered an explanation in 1933.

In North America, however, the terms " Cappuccino Freddo " or " Iced cappuccino ", if offered, may be somewhat of a misnomer if the characteristic frothed milk is omitted in the iced variation.

The term think tank itself, however, originally referred to organizations that offered military advice — most notably the RAND Corporation, founded originally in 1946 as an offshoot of Douglas Aircraft, and which became an independent corporation in 1948.

He criticized radical liberation theology, saying, " this conception of Christ, as a political figure, a revolutionary, as the subversive of Nazareth, does not tally with the Church's catechisms "; however, he did speak of " the ever increasing wealth of the rich at the expense of the ever increasing poverty of the poor ", and affirmed that the principle of private property " must lead to a more just and equitable distribution of goods ... and, if the common good demands it, there is no need to hesitate at expropriation, itself, done in the right way "; on balance, the Pope offered neither praise nor condemnation.

The former people, however, do not at first seem to have offered any obstacle to their progress ; but as early as 580 BCE we find the Selinuntines engaged in hostilities with the people of Segesta ( a non-Hellenic city ), whose territory bordered on their own.

A number of camera companies offered single width 8 mm film in magazines and spools, however the format faded when Kodak introduced Kodachrome, as this was only available in the double 8 mm format.

Three recent historians, however, have offered an alternative interpretation of events.