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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 29 | 29 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
Andocides, Speeches | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40 | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Aristotle, Athenian Constitution (ed. H. Rackham) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Strabo, Geography | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Xenophon, Hellenica (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Appian, The Foreign Wars (ed. Horace White) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Andocides, Against Alcibiades, section 11 (search)
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That is why the young spend their days in the courts instead of in the gymnasia; that is why our old men fight our battles, while our young men make speeches— they take Alcibiades as their model, Alcibiades who carries his villainy to such unheard-of lengths that, after recommending that the people of MelosIn 425 B.C. Melos refused to pay the increased tribute demanded of her, and during the years which followed displayed a general defiance of Athens. Athens finally acted in the summer of 416. A fleet attacked the island, the male population was massacred, and the women and children sold as slaves. See Thuc. 5. be sold into slavery, he purchased a woman from among the prisoners and has since had a son by her, a child whose birth was more unnatural than that of Aegis—thus,Son of Thyestes by his own daughter, Pelopeia. He was exposed as a child, but saved by shepherds. His uncle, Atreus, then brought him up as his own son. Later he murdered Atreus and placed Thyestes on his throne