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Able and prudent Management of Aristides. Cimon succeeds to the Command of the Fleet. Character of Cimon. Eion besieged. Scyros colonized by Atticans. Supposed Discovery of the Bones of Theseus. Declining Power of Themistocles. Democratic Change in the Constitution. Themistocles ostracised. Death of Aristides.
It was suppressed, at first, but the Atticans, at Marathon, defeated the Persian warriors, B.C. 490, and the great victory changed the whole course of Asiatic conquest. Darius made vast preparations for a new invasion of Greece, but died before they were completed, after a reign of thirty-six years, B.C. 485, leaving a name greater than that of any Oriental sovereign, except Cyrus.
Theseus incorporated the people into one state, removed the principal courts for the administration of justice to Athens, and greatly enlarged the city, which had hitherto covered little more than the rock which afterward formed the citadel. To cement their union he instituted several festivals, and especially changed the Athenæa into the Panathenæa, or the festivals of all the Atticans.
Even if we accord to the tale of Cecrops all implicit faith, the Atticans would still remain a Pelasgic population, of which a few early institutions a few benefits of elementary civilization and, it may be, a few of the nobler families, were probably of Egyptian origin.
Dorcis replaces him. The Athenians rise to the Head of the Ionian League. Delos made the Senate and Treasury of the Allies. Able and prudent Management of Aristides. Cimon succeeds To the Command of the Fleet. Character of Cimon. Eion besieged. Scyros colonized by Atticans. Supposed Discovery of the Bones of Theseus. Declining Power of Themistocles. Democratic Change in the Constitution.
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