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

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.

The Delian League, founded about 477 BC, was an association of Greek city-states, members numbering between 150 to 173, under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Plataea at the end of the Second Persian invasion of Greece.

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.

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

As a result, the Athenians are forced to give up control of Boeotia as well as Phocis and Locris, which all fall under the control of hostile oligarchs who quit the Delian League.

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.

The Delian League had changed from an alliance into an empire clearly under the control of Athens.

The Persians occupied Samothrace in 508 BC, it later passed under Athenian control, and was a member of the Delian League in the 5th century BC.

Priene was a member of the Athenian dominated Delian League in the 5th century BC and in 387 BC came under Persian dominance again until Alexander the Great's conquest.

In 404 BC, the Spartan fleet under Lysander blockaded Piraeus and subsequently Athens surrenderred to the Spartans, who put an end to the Delian League and the war itself.

Throughout the 470s BC, the Delian League campaigned in Thrace and the Aegean to remove the remaining Persian garrisons from the region, primarily under the command of the Athenian politician Cimon.

At 425-424 BC the town joined the Delian League, under the leadership of Athens.

The Athenians wanted Carystus to join the Delian League, but seeming as though it had been under Persian control, they refused.

* Under the leadership of Kimon, the Delian League continues to fight the Persians and to release the Ionian cities from Persian domination.

The actions of the general Pausanias at the siege of Byzantium alienated many of the Greek states from the Spartans, and the anti-Persian alliance was therefore reconstituted around Athenian leadership, as the so-called Delian League.

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.

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

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

After the Battle of Salamis, Athens set up the Delian League, treasury on island of Delos, a confederacy of cities around the Aegean Sea.

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.

Naxos was the first Greek City-State to attempt to leave from the Delian League circa 476 BC ; Athens quickly squashed the notion and forcibly removed all military naval vessels from the island's control.

* 5, 000 talents are transferred to the treasury of the Delian League in Athens.

Politically, the Classical Period was dominated by Athens and the Delian League during the 5th century, displaced by Spartan hegemony during the early 4th century BC, before power shifted to Thebes and the Boeotian League and finally to the League of Corinth led by Macedon.

* The island of Naxos wishes to secede from the Delian League, but is blockaded by Athens and forced to surrender.

* Pericles declares that the Delian League's considerable treasury at Delos is not safe from the Persian navy and has the treasury transferred to Athens, thus strengthening Athens ' power over the League.

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

* Samos, an autonomous member of the Delian League and one of Athens ' principal allies with a substantial fleet of its own, quarrels with Miletus and appeals to Athens for assistance.