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	Potidaea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Potidaea (Greek: Î Î¿ÏÎ¯Î´Î±Î¹Î± Potidaia, modern transliteration: Potidea) was a colony founded by the Corinthians around 600 BCE in the narrowest point in Pallene (now Kassandria) in the western point of Chalcidice in what was known as Thrace.
		Potidaea was inevitably involved in all of the conflicts between Athens and Corinth.
		Potidaea was destroyed and handed the territory to the Olynthians.
	www.anime.co.za /wiki/Potidaea (200 words)

	Alcibiades - LoveToKnow 1911
		He took part in the battle of Potidaea (432), where his life was saved by Socrates, a service which he repaid at the battle of Delium (424).
		After the battle of Aegospotami, and the final defeat of Athens, he crossed the Hellespont and took refuge with Pharnabazus in Phrygia, with the object of securing the aid of Artaxerxes against Sparta.
		But the Spartans induced Pharnabazus to put him out of the way; as he was about to set out for the Persian court his residence was set on fire, and on rushing out on his assassins, dagger in hand, he was killed by a shower of arrows (404).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Alcibiades (960 words)

	Wikinfo \| Battle of Sybota
		The Battle of Sybota took place in 433 BC between Corcyra and Corinth.
		The Corinthian ships were lined up with the Megarans and Ambraciots on the right, the Corinthians on the left, and the remainder of their allies in the centre.
		Soon after this battle, the Athenians and Corinthians fought again at the Battle of Potidaea, leading to a formal declaration of war from Sparta.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Battle_of_Sybota (578 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
		They were not to go out to battle, but to come into the city and guard it, and get ready their fleet, in which their real strength lay.
		For there is justice in the claim that steadfastness in his country's battles should be as a cloak to cover a man's other imperfections; since the good action has blotted out the bad, and his merit as a citizen more than outweighed his demerits as an individual.
		As soon as they arrived, they brought up their engines against Potidaea and tried every means of taking it, but did not succeed either in capturing the city or in doing anything else worthy of their preparations.
	classics.mit.edu /Thucydides/pelopwar.2.second.html (10241 words)

	Wikipedia: Phormio
		In 430 BC he led the Athenian fleet sent to help Ambracia and Acarnania at the Battle of Potidaea.
		Phormio defeated the Corinthian fleet at the Battle of Naupactus in 429 BC, trapping them in the narrow strait and capturing twelve of their ships.
		A larger Corinthian and Spartan fleet attempted to attack him again a few days later, and although he lost many of his own ships he forced them to withdraw for a second time.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/p/ph/phormio.html (262 words)

	Detail Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Located on the narrow neck of the westernmost of Chalcidice's three peninsulas, Potidaea had a fine harbor, facing west into the Thermaic Gulf and protected in later years by walls and by moles across the harbor mouth.
		Potidaea (Greek: Poteidaia, a form of the name of the god Poseidon) was the only major Chalcidic city founded by Greeks who were not Ionian Greeks; it was also the only Corinthian colony located in the Aegean rather than in the Adriatic or farther west.
		Potidaea's location made it a gateway from Greece to the north Aegean.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0421 (455 words)

	Biography of Alcibiades (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Thus early deprived of his father's control, possessed of great personal beauty and the heir to great wealth, which was increased by his marriage, he showed himself self-willed, capricious and passionate, and indulged in the most insolent behaviour.
		He took part in the Battle of Potidaea (432 BC), where his life was saved by Socrates, a service which he repaid at the Battle of Delium (424 BC).
		But the Spartans induced Pharnabazus to put him out of the way; as he was about to set out for the Persian court his residence was set on fire, and on rushing out on his assassins, dagger in hand, he was killed by a shower of arrows (404 BC).
	biography-1.qardinalinfo.com /a/Alcibiades.html (935 words)

	THE HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR - THUCYDIDES - FULL TEXT - BOOK TWO - THE ATHENAEUM LIBRARY OF PHILOSOPHY
		Second Year of the War - The Plague of Athens - Position and Policy of Pericles - Fall of Potidaea SUCH was the funeral that took place during this winter, with which the first year of the war came to an end.
		Provisions there were none left; and so far had distress for food gone in Potidaea that, besides a number of other horrors, instances had even occurred of the people having eaten one another.
		The Athenians took refuge in Potidaea, and afterwards recovered their dead under truce, and returned to Athens with the remnant of their army; four hundred and thirty men and all the generals having fallen.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /thucydides02.htm (13580 words)

	Epic of the Peloponnesian War: Historical Commentary
		Their orders were to make ready for another battle at sea and to do better in it and not to be driven off the sea by a few ships.
		A confused and indecisive battle ensued, in which part of the Corcyran fleet deserted to the Peloponnesian side in the midst of the fighting.
		The aftermath of the battle led to controversy and recriminations in Athens.
	www.warhorsesim.com /epw_hist.html (10431 words)

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		Owing to the distance by which their allies had preceded them, neither of the Hellenic divisions knew anything of the battle, but fancied they were hastening on to encamp.
		While the Athenians were thus detained in Crete, the Peloponnesians in Cyllene got ready for battle, and coasted along to Panormus in Achaea, where their land army had come to support them.
		As to the battle, it shall not be, if I can help it, in the strait, nor will I sail in there at all; seeing that in a contest between a number of clumsily managed vessels and a small, fast, well-handled squadron, want of sea room is an undoubted disadvantage.
	members.tripod.com /~rgrosser/insights/BOOKII.txt (16803 words)

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		The fleet was under the command of Aristeus, son of Pellichas, Callicrates, son of Callias, and Timanor, son of Timanthes; the troops under that of Archetimus, son of Eurytimus, and Isarchidas, son of Isarchus.
		Everywhere tumult reigned, the battle being one scene of confusion; meanwhile the Athenian ships, by coming up to the Corcyraeans whenever they were pressed, served to alarm the enemy, though their commanders could not join in the battle from fear of their instructions.
		Meanwhile the Corinthians, with Potidaea in revolt and the Athenian ships on the coast of Macedonia, alarmed for the safety of the place and thinking its danger theirs, sent volunteers from Corinth, and mercenaries from the rest of Peloponnese, to the number of sixteen hundred heavy infantry in all, and four hundred light troops.
	history.eserver.org /peloponesian-war.txt (19673 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		With the death of Lamachus in battle some time later, the Sicilian Expedition fell into the hands of Nicias, who modern scholars have judged to be an inadequate military leader.
		The battle was evenly matched and raged for a long time, but the balance tipped towards the Athenians when Alcibiades sailed into the Hellespont with eighteen triremes.
		After the Battle of Aegospotami, Alcibiades crossed the Hellespont and took refuge in Phrygia, with the object of securing the aid of Artaxerxes against Sparta.
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Alcibiades (8141 words)

	Socrates (1970) TV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		With the Battle of Syboda, these two battles led to the Peloponnesian War.
		424 B.C. -- Socrates was in the Battle of Delium (Athenians versus Boeotians).
		424-425 (winter) -- Socrates was in the Battle of Amphipolis (Athenians versus Sparta in the Peloponnesian War).
	www.vernonjohns.org /snuffy1186/socrates1970.html (309 words)

	Wikinfo \| Timeline of Ancient Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Battle of Mycale frees Greek colonies in Asia.
		After the Battle of Salamis, Athens set up the Delian League, treasury on island of Delos, a confederacy of cities around the Aegean.
		Battle of Mantinea, greatest land battle of war, gives Sparta victory over Argos, which broke treaty, Alcibiades thrown out, alliance broken
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Timeline_of_Ancient_Greece (1061 words)

	Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War Book II
		[20] The reason why Archidamus remained in order of battle at Acharnae during this incursion, instead of descending into the plain, is said to have been this.
		Funerals after such battles were public rituals and Pericles used the occasion to make a classic statement of the value of democracy.
		So superfluously abundant were the resources from which the genius of Pericles foresaw an easy triumph in the war over the unaided forces of the Peloponnesians.
	www.bostonleadershipbuilders.com /thucydides/book02.htm (16536 words)

	Congress at Lacedaemon
		For all this, war had not yet broken out, and there was still truce for a while; for [the battle at Potidaea] was chiefly a matter for Corinth alone.
		But the siege of Potidaea drove the Corinthians to take the diplomatic initiative: she had men inside the besieged city, and she feared it would fall.
		For the present, assist your allies and Potidaea in particular, as you promised, by a speedy invasion of Attica, and do not sacrifice friends and kindred to their bitterest enemies, and drive the rest of us in desperation to ally with anyone who will help us.
	courses.missouristate.edu /edc113f/Thuc.1.67-78.html (2933 words)

	Thucydides: Peloponnesian War (Abridged): Section 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Plataea is also significantly the site of the great land battle against the Persian invasion, a decisive victory for the combined Greek forces, headed by Sparta, in 480 BC.
		They were also to keep a tight rein on their allies--the strength of Athens being derived from the money brought in by their payments, and success in war depending principally upon conduct and capital [they] had no reason to despond.
		6.29 "For there is justice in the claim that steadfastness in his country's battles should be as a cloak to cover a man's other imperfections; since the good action has blotted out the bad, and his merit as a citizen more than outweighed his demerits as an individual.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~johnstoi/thucydides/thucydides_2.htm (6781 words)

	Detail Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Although a brilliant leader in battle, he was prone to dangerously grandiose schemes in war strategy and politics.
		His fellow citizens repeatedly voted him into high command, yet they mistrusted him for his private debaucheries and for his ambition, which seemed aimed at seizing absolute power at Athens.
		a subordinate of Alcibiades was defeated in a sea battle off Notium, near Ephesus, on Asia Minor's west coast.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0033 (1560 words)

	SparkNotes: Charmides: Section 1 (153a–157c)
		Socrates, returning from service in the army, arrives at the Taureas palaestra, one of his "old haunts." He is greeted there by a number of friends and acquaintances, among whom Chaerephon ("who always behaves like a madman") runs up to Socrates to ask how he managed to escape from the brutal battle of Potidaea.
		News of the battle has just reached Athens.
		Eventually, Socrates starts asking about Athens—the state of philosophy these days, whether any youth are particularly wise or beautiful, and so on.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/charmides/section1.html (1280 words)

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		End of Golden Age, Peloponnesian Wars begin Athens under Pericles blockades Potidaea (Battle of Potidaea BC)
		Cleon meets Brasidas outside of Amphipolis, both are killed (Battle of Amphipolis BC)
		Battle of Mantinea, greatest land battle of war, gives
	www.goodreads.ca /greekchronology (1013 words)

	Book II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		would force a battle on the rest of the citizens.
		should be delivered at the burial of those who fall in battle.
		killed in battle, with the loss of a number of his troops.
	www6.tltc.ttu.edu /forsythe/Thucydides/b2.htm (21152 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Plato
		It is hardly too much to say that Plato's dialogues are suffused with a
		At the opening of the Charmides, Socrates, returning from the battle of Potidaea, comes to the wrestling school of Taureus and inquires who are the new beauties among the boys.
		Though Socrates qualifies his query by explaining he is interested in intellect as well as appearance, he and the others are constantly aware of the power of youthful male beauty to excite and inspire.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/plato.html (774 words)

	ALCIBIADES by Plato
		His father died in battle when Alcibiades was about 4, and he was brought up by Pericles, the eminent political leader of Athens.
		The ALCIBIADES dialog is set in 432 BC when Alcibiades was 18, the same year that Socrates saved his life during the battle at Potidaea.
		His courage in battle and his speeches in the assembly enabled him to become a general when he was thirty.
	www.san.beck.org /Alcibiades.html (4531 words)

	SOCRATES: Prudence and Courage by Sanderson Beck
		Were you present at the battle of Potidaea?
		Our Athenians were not well prepared for this fight.
		and it can be used in battle to defend oneself,
	www.san.beck.org /SOC3-Prudence.html (5040 words)

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