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In this country, to which the old name is still attached , is to be found a principal cause of the renown and the reverses of Athens of the victory of Salamis of the expedition to Sicily. It appears that the silver-mines of Laurion had been worked from a very remote period beyond even any traditional date.
Phrynichus. Aeschylus. Analysis of the Tragedies of Aeschylus. III Aristides. His Character and Position. The Rise of Themistocles. Aristides is Ostracised. The Ostracism examined. The Influence of Themistocles increases. The Silver mines of Laurion. Their Product applied by Themistocles to the Increase of the Navy. New Direction given to the National Character. IV The Preparations of Darius.
Drachmas Athens, with a population of 22,309 collects 159,000 Piraeus, ... 2,099 ... 27,300 Kekropia, ... 2,158 ... 3,759 Marathon, ... 1,214 ... 1,708 Phyle, ... 2,659 ... 7,000 Laurion, ... 1,470 ... 2,356 Kalamos, ... 2,000 ... 2,747 33,909 ... 203,870
VI. Around the country by the ancient Thoricus, on the road from the modern Kerratia to the Cape of Sunium, heaps of scoriae indicate to the traveller that he is in the neighbourhood of the once celebrated silver-mines of Laurion; he passes through pines and woodlands he notices the indented tracks of wheels which two thousand years have not effaced from the soil he discovers the ancient shafts of the mines, and pauses before the foundations of a large circular tower and the extensive remains of the castles which fortified the neighbouring town . A little farther, and still passing among mine-banks and hillocks of scoriae, he beholds upon Cape Colonna the fourteen existent columns of the temple of Minerva Sunias.
Hitherto the people of Athens had been accustomed to divide among themselves the yearly revenues of the silver-mines of Laurion. In the year of his archonship these revenues were unusually large, and he persuaded his countrymen to forego their personal advantage, and to apply these revenues to the enlargement of their fleet.
She had added the gold of Thasos to the silver of Laurion, and established a footing in Thessaly which was at once a fortress against the Asiatic arms and a mart for Asiatic commerce. The fairest lands of the opposite coast the most powerful islands of the Grecian seas contributed to her treasury, or were almost legally subjected to her revenge.
The money thus obtained was devoted to the augmentation of the maritime force to two hundred triremes an achievement that probably exhausted the mine revenue for some years; and the custom once broken, the produce of Laurion does not seem again to have been wasted upon individuals.
The true spiritual transmigrator it passes through all shapes losing identity, but not life and kindred to the GREAT INTELLIGENCE, which is the soul of matter departing from one form only to animate another. Aristides. His Character and Position. The Rise of Themistocles. Aristides is Ostracised. The Ostracism examined. The Influence of Themistocles increases. The Silver-mines of Laurion.
Let us prepare then to engage the barbarian by sea. Our ships are our wooden walls." This interpretation, as it was the more encouraging, so it was the more approved. The vessels already built from the revenues of the mines of Laurion were now destined to the safety of Greece.
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