After the end of the Greek-Persian wars the cities on the coasts became part of the Delian League, which was, however, later dissolved.

The Delian League under the leadership of Athens, in 431 BC.

Abydos thereafter became a member of the Delian League, until it revolted from Athenian rule in 411 BC.

Delian League, before the Peloponnesian War in 431 BC.

By 431 BC Athens ' heavy-handed control of the Delian League would prompt the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War ; the League was dissolved upon the war's conclusion in 404 BC.

With the withdrawal of these states, a congress was called on the holy island of Delos to institute a new alliance to continue the fight against the Persians ; hence the modern designation " Delian League ".

The Delian League was turning from an alliance into an empire.

By 454, the Delian League could be fairly characterized as an Athenian Empire ; at the start of the Peloponnesian War, only Chios and Lesbos were left to contribute ships, and these states were by now far too weak to secede without support.

Chios, the greatest and most powerful of the original members of the Delian League save Athens, was the last to revolt, and in the aftermath of the Syracusan Expedition enjoyed a success of several years, inspiring all of Ionia to revolt.

* Delian League by Jona Lendering

However, the temple was probably reconstructed since in 454 BC the treasury of the Delian League was transferred in its opisthodomos.

It later became part of the Delian League and fought on the side of Athens in the Peloponnesian war.

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The terrestrial empire's maritime analogue is the thalassocracy, an empire comprising islands and coasts which are accessible to its terrestrial homeland, such as the Athenian-dominated Delian League.

Inscriptions recently discovered at Halicarnassus indicate that her grandson Lygdamis negotiated with a local assembly to settle disputes over seized property, which is consistent with a tyrant under pressure, and his name is not mentioned later in the tribute list of the Athenian Delian League, indicating that there might well have been a successful uprising against him sometime before 454 BC.

When the Athenians formed the Delian League Chios joined as one of the few members who did not have to pay tribute but instead supplied ships to the alliance.

For a time, it served as the treasury of the Delian League, which later became the Athenian Empire.

In the mid-5th century BC, when the Athenian Acropolis became the seat of the Delian League and Athens was the greatest cultural centre of its time, Pericles initiated an ambitious building project that lasted the entire second half of the century.

The funds were partly drawn from the treasury of the Delian League, which was moved from the Panhellenic sanctuary at Delos to the Acropolis in 454 BC.

Its empire began as a small group of city-states, called the Delian League — from the island of Delos, on which they kept their treasury — that came together to ensure that the Greco-Persian Wars were truly over.

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 Delian League in 431 BC

This was a direct violation of the Thirty Years ' Peace, which had ( among other things ) stipulated that the Delian League and the Peloponnesian League would respect each other's autonomy and internal affairs.

After the Persian Wars the island became the natural meeting-ground for the Delian League, founded in 478 BC, the congresses being held in the temple ( a separate quarter was reserved for foreigners and the sanctuaries of foreign deities.

To prosecute the war and then to defend Greece from further Persian attack, Athens founded the Delian League in 477 BC.

After the defeat of Xerxes the Thasians joined the Delian confederacy ; but afterwards, on account of a difference about the mines and marts on the mainland, they revolted.

After several minor wars about which we know little, tensions exploded into the Peloponnesian War ( 431 BC ) between Athens ' Delian League and the Spartan Peloponnese.

Many of Athens ' allies in the Delian League also revolted, and although the city immediately began to rebuild its fleet, there was little they could do about the revolts for the time being.

Thargelia ( Greek Θαργήλια ) was one of the chief Athenian festivals in honour of the Delian Apollo and Artemis, held on their birthdays, the 6th and 7th of the month Thargelion ( about May 24 and May 25 ).

Croix's influential article The Character of the Athenian empire, which first appeared in Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte ( 1954, 3, pp. 1 – 41 ), provoked a fresh debate about the nature of the Delian League and the Athenian Empire which continues to this day.

* 477 BC: The Delian League is inaugurated.

Though enrolled in the Delian League it remained disaffected towards Athens, and in 477 had to be coerced by the establishment of a cleruchy on the island ; nevertheless, in 411 Andros proclaimed its freedom, and in 408 withstood an Athenian attack.

Map showing the locations of battles fought by the Delian League, 477 – 449 BC

In one case from the 5th century BC, the ten treasurers of the Delian league ( the Hellenotamiai ) were accused at their scrutinies of misappropriation of funds.

In 454 BC, the Athenian general Pericles moved the Delian League's treasury from Delos to Athens, allegedly to keep it safe from Persia.

In the 5th century BC, Dorian Thera did not join the Delian League with Athens ; and during the Peloponnesian War, Thera sided with Dorian Sparta, against Athens.

Indeed, Athens would create the Delian League in 478 BC, uniting the naval power of the Aegean Islands and Ionia under Athenian leadership.

In 478 BC, the Hellenic alliance was reconstituted without the Peloponnesian states, into the Delian League, in which Athens was the dominant power.

* 472 BC: Carystus in Euboea is forced to join the Delian League.

* 466 BC: Delian League defeats Persia at the Battle of Eurymedon.

* 465 BC: Thasos revolts from the Delian League.

* 462 BC: The revolt of Thasos against the Delian League comes to an end with their surrender.

* 454 BC: The treasury of the Delian League is moved from Delos to Athens.

* 449 BC: The Peace of Callias between the Delian League and Persia ends the Persian Wars.

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.

Bacchylides's first notable success came sometime after 500 BC with commissions from Athens for the great Delian festival ( Ode 17 ) and from Macedonia for a song to be sung at a symposium for the young prince, Alexander I ( fr.