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	Delian League - LoveToKnow 1911
		The general affairs of the league were managed by a synod which met periodically in the temple of Apollo and Artemis at Delos, the ancient centre sanctified by the common worship of the Ionians.
		The league was, therefore, specifically a free confederation of autonomous Ionian cities founded as a protection against the common danger which threatened the Aegean basin, and led by Athens in virtue of her predominant naval power as exhibited in the war against Xerxes.
		At this point Sparta was roused to a sense of the significance of the new confederacy, and the Athenian corn supply was threatened by a Spartan fleet of sixty triremes.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DE/DELIAN_LEAGUE.htm (5526 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Pictures from Greek Life and Story by Alfred J. Church
		Delos was singularly well placed to be a trade centre; it lay in the line of the great trade routes, whether ending in Italy to the West, or in Egypt and Syria eastwards.
		Nevertheless Delos was a power; the rival monarchies which had divided among themselves the empire of Alexander in turns courted, and, when occasion demanded, protected her, made use of her religious prestige, and availed themselves of her central position for the purposes of commerce.
		It was Egypt that succeeded to Rhodes in the patronage of Delos.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=church&book=greek&story=island (3565 words)

	Delos - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		In 166 Delos was given to Athens; the inhabitants fled to Achea, and the island was colonized by Athenians, together with Romans.
		Delos was one of the states to which Rome addressed letters in behalf of the Jews (138-137 BC; see 1 Macc 15:16-23).
		By the side of Delos, across a very narrow strait, lies Rheneia, another island which was the burying-ground of Delos; for on the sacred isle neither births, deaths nor burials were permitted.
	www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T2630 (745 words)

	Discover Delos, sister of Mykonos, Greek Islands
		Delos is not only the geological center of the Cyclades, but was once the commercial, religious, and commercial center of ancient Greece.
		Delos means ""that which appeared" and was so named because it suddenly appeared in the waves and sheltered Leto from Hera's eyes.
		Four of the famous nine lions that are symbols of Delos have been removed to a museum to protect them from corrosion and the magnificent animals now guarding the Path of the Lions are casts of the originals.
	www.magicaljourneys.com /Mykonos/mykonos-discover-delos.html (1045 words)

	Explore Greece, Sail the Greek Islands - DELOS
		Delos was a place of such importance that the surrounding islands were known as the Cyclades, since it was thougth that they lay in a circle round the island on which the god Apollo was born.
		Athenians coveted Delos for a long time, seeing its strategic position as one from where they could control the Aegean, and by the 5th century it had come under their jurisdiction.
		At that time, Delos became the headquarters of the Delian Confederacy, a maritime league under the leadership of Athens, but in 454 BC the Athenians carried off the treasury of the league and deposited it on the Acropolis.
	www.sailingparadiseyachtcharters.com /destinations/greece/delos.php (565 words)

	History of Ancient Athens - Periklean Age
		The confederacy of Delos, which started in 477 BC, was not only confided to the Ionians, but it was joined by all the Aegean islands.
		The treasury of the league was in the sacred island of Delos.
		The islands belonging to the confederacy of Delos had become passive tributaries and the treasury of Delos was transferred to Athens.
	www.sikyon.com /Athens/ahist_eg03.html (6045 words)

	Delos
		o establish closer ties with the Ionians and the islands the Athenians established the League on the island of Delos, the ancient centre of Ioanian worship, in 478-77 B.C. and it was henceforth called the Confederacy of Delos.
		Delos was chosen to be the centre of the League because of its religious associations and its practical advantages.
		Delos was situated in the centre of the Aegean (1), it had a good harbour and like Delphi it had always been too wealthy to have independent political ambitions (2).
	www.greece.org /poseidon/work/islands2/cyclades/delos.html (3051 words)

	Planet Waves Astrology \| The Land That Time Remembered \| by Eric Francis
		The Delos synagogue is widely considered the oldest original Jewish house of worship of the Diaspora, or scattering of the Jews.
		Delos was all but forgotten until French archeologists arrived in 1873 and, appreciating the importance of ancient Greek history, began a systematic excavation that is still underway.
		I heard the story of Delos, in summarized form, from a souvenir shopkeeper on the 4th of May, the eve of Beltane with the Sun approaching the midpoint of Taurus.
	planetwaves.net /contents/heraclestarot.html (3989 words)

	A Smaller History of Greece By William Smith-Chapter 9
		The league obtained the name of "the Confederacy of Delos," from its being arranged that deputies of the allies belonging to it should meet periodically for deliberation in the temple of Apollo and Artemis (Diana) in that island.
		Many of the smaller states belonging to the confederacy, wearied with perpetual hostilities, commuted for a money payment the ships which they were bound to supply; and thus, by depriving themselves of a navy, lost the only means by which they could assert their independence.
		During the progress of these events, the states which formed the Confederacy of Delos, with the exception of Chios, Lesbos, and Samos, had gradually become, instead of the active allies of Athens, her disarmed and passive tributaries.
	www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/history/greece/chapter9.html (5625 words)

	Delos
		As a reward, the wandering island was fixed in the middle of the Greek world, and its name changed to that of Delos, which means "visible, plain, manifest", as a reminder of Apollo's role as god of divination.
		As was already said, Athens was chosen from the start as the leader of the alliance (the hegemon) and provided the commander in chief of the army and fleet.
		Delos was the destination of an annual mission sent by Athens following a vow the Athenians had made when Theseus sailed to Crete to fight the Minotaur.
	plato-dialogues.org /tools/loc/delos.htm (715 words)

	Delos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Delos was the most important Panhellenic sanctuary, and, according to mythology, the birth-place of Apollo and Artemis.
		Delos was probably first inhabited in 3000 B.C. and at the end of the fourth century it developed into a major commercial center, competing with Rhodes.
		The close relations of Delos with Rome, though, was the main reason for its decline.
	home.comcast.net /~cdaneman/delos.htm (407 words)

	DELIAN LEAGUE, or CONF... - Online Information article about DELIAN LEAGUE, or CONF...
		History.—Several causes contributed to the formation of the first Confederacy of Delos.
		conference, and the Second Athenian Confederacy was formed in the archonship of Nausinicus on the basis of the famous decree of Aristoteles.
		In 346 the peace of Philocrates was made between the league and Philip on terms which were accepted by the Athenian Houle.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DAH_DEM/DELIAN_LEAGUE_or_CONFEDERACY_OF.html (6717 words)

	The Archaeological Site of Delos
		This is a journey through time to the sacred Island of Delos, one of the greatest sanctuaries in all of Greece.
		Delos was the birthplace of the God Apollo and the Goddess Artemidos, both were children born to Zeus and Leto.
		Its construction began by the Delians in 477 B.C., at approximately the same period that the Athenian Confederacy (League) with Delos was established.
	ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/478962 (708 words)

	Delian League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Thucydides lays emphasis on the fact that in these meetings Athens as head of the league had no more than presidential authority, and the other members were called snmmacoi***** (allies), a word, however, of ambiguous meaning and capable of including both free and subject allies.
		The league was, therefore, specifically a free confederation of autonomous [onian cities founded as a protection against the common danger which threatened the Aegean basin, and led by Athens in virtue of her predominant naval power as exhibited in the wae against Xerxes.
		In 355 his advance temporarily ceased, but, as we learn from Isocrates and Xenophon, the financial exhaustion of the league was such that its destruction was only a matter of time.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /AncGreece/delian_league.htm (5401 words)

	GöltürkBükü.com
		Century B.C. and was in the "Hexapolis" confederacy which consisted of 6 cities.
		After this event, the confederacy was called the Pentapolis instead of Hexapolis.
		Halikarnassos which was a member of the Attica-Delos Sea Confederacy in 468 B.C. went under the Persian rule again in 430 B.C. and was ruled by the local Persians.
	www.golturkbuku.com /english/anasayfa/belediye.htm (1169 words)

	Pericles biography
		The Athenians, elated by their victories over the Persians and fired by the splendid empire established under the name of the Confederacy of Delos (see Delos), were eager for foreign conquest.
		She had gradually extended her territory so that, aside from her allies on the mainland, she embraced, under the Confederacy of Delos, as equal or subject allies, nearly all the larger islands of the Ægean, and she furthermore possessed important cities in the north and in the Thracian Chersonese.
		In 446–445 a 30 years' peace was concluded between Athens and her allies on the one side and the Peloponnesians and their allies on the other.
	www.dromo.info /periclesbio.htm (1163 words)

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		Phocaea rapidly became a famous trading port and joined the Ionian confederacy (Panionium), thus becoming the northernmost of the twelve cities of the confederacy.
		The Phocaeans, who were bold seafarers and skilled traders, established colonies on the Black Sea (Amisos-Samsun), at the mouth of the Dardanelles (Lampsaque) and on the western coasts of the Mediterranean.
		It was known as an active artistic centre and towards the end of the 3C BC, became the first seat of the guild of the Ionian actors who attended the cult of Dyonisus and gave performances at various places.
	www.guide-martine.com /aegean3.asp (2650 words)

	Leaders and Battles: Pericles,
		Pericles, son of Xanthippus who conquered the Persians at Mycale in 479 B.C., championed the democratic party of Athens and led it triumphantly during what is known as the Age of Pericles (465-429 B.C.).
		He introduced many reforms, carried Athens safely through several wars, formed the confederacy of Delos, restored the buildings of Athens destroyed by the Persians, beautified Athens, and erected many structures on the Acropolis, including the Parthenon.
		After the defeat of the Peloponnesians War and the outbreak of the plague, his fame dwindled.
	www.lbdb.com /TMDisplayLeader.cfm?PID=5364 (115 words)

	Herodotus biography
		His uncle Panyasis was put to death about the year 457 for conspiring against the tyrant Lygdamis.
		Herodotus went into exile and is said to have made his temporary home in the island of Samos, an ally of Athens and member of the Confederacy of Delos or the Athenian Empire.
		Between 467 and 464 he is believed to have traveled extensively on the shores of the Black Sea, in Thrace, Scythia, Asia Minor, and the Persian Empire, including Egypt.
	www.dromo.info /herodotusbio.htm (1347 words)

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		[Jan. confederacy of Delos, at that time, it must be remembered, consisting of a body of allies, and not of an imperial city with her subjects.
		In two years we find Athens at the head of the confederacy of Delos, the presiding city of a body of independent allies, all alike subject to the synod of Delos in matters pertaining to the war against Persia, which it was the object of the confederacy to wage.
		The transfer of the treasury from Delos to Athens is said to have been made on the motion of the Samians, and was probably rather a measure of pre- caution, adopted for the safety of the increasing treasure, than a coup d%~tat on the part of Pericles, as it is sometimes viewed.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ndlpcoop/nicmoas/nora/nora0086.sgm (15933 words)

	Chapter Two
		One of the oldest is on the island of Delos* (the Delian* games, in honor of Apollo* on his sacred island).
		By 479 BCE the Persians* are on the run and the Greeks have retaken the first parts of their Asia Minor* colonies.
		In 477 BCE The Confederacy of Delos* is founded by the Athenians to cope with all aggression.
	hometown.aol.com /clasz/ChapTwo.html (11131 words)

	Schulers Books (Mosaics of Grecian History - 55/101)
		walls and fortifications; to surrender all their ships but twelve; to restore their exiles; to relinquish their conquests; to become a member of the Peloponnesian Confederacy; and to serve Sparta in all her expeditions, whether by land or by sea.
		Thus fell imperial Athens (404 B.C.), in the seventy-third year after the formation of the Confederacy of Delos, the origin of her subsequent empire.
		Soon after this event, and in the same year, Alcibiades, who had been honored by both Athens and Sparta, and was now the dread of both, met his fate in a foreign land.
	www.schulers.com /books/ma/m/Mosaics_of_Grecian_History/Mosaics_of_Grecian_History55.htm (1279 words)

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		Thus was formed the famous Delian Confederacy, with the avowed purpose of making reprisals on the Great King's territory for the havoc which he had wrought in Greece.
		The visible sign of this momentous change, by which the Delian Confederacy became merged in the Athenian Empire, was the removal of the treasury from Delos to Athens.
		But the Thebans had never forgotten or forgiven the secession of Plataea from the confederacy of which they were the leaders; and seizing the opportunity while the Athenians were occupied with measures for their own safety, they made a treacherous attempt to gain possession of the town.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext05/8sthu10.txt (21971 words)

	Miletus, Turkey
		The city which had been completely destroyed was rebuilt about 480 B.C. in accordance with Hippodamian principles on a new site to the northeast of its previous position.
		In 479 it shook off Persian control and became a member of the Athenian maritime league known as the Confederacy of Delos.
		Art and industry flourished again andmiian beds, chairs and textiles were widely renowned.
	www.planetware.com /yenikoy/miletus-tr-ay-m.htm (596 words)

	Kars and millas
		Ancient Mylasa became the capital of Caria under the Persian rule in the 6C BC.
		The city, which took part in the Ionian rebellion and the Persian Wars in the 5C BC, joined the Attica-Delos Naval Confederacy in 446 BC.
		Alexander took it the Great who placed Ada, the Queen of Caria, in charge of the region's administration.
	www.knotted-carpets.com /kar.html (450 words)

	Thomas James Norton: Undermining the Constitution: Chapter XVI
		It was known by the historians at Philadelphia that alliances of States, or confederations or confederacies, had always bred dissensions and fallen apart.
		They knew also that in anything tighter than a confederation the individual States forming it had always lost identity through absorption in the central organization.
		Thus, the Confederacy of Delos (about 480 B. C.), which was formed by Aristides to consolidate Greek cities and colonies in defense against Persia, and which was to last until the pieces of iron thrown into the sea should float, was before long weakened by secessions.
	www.constitution.org /norton/norton_16.htm (750 words)

	Isocrates IV, Panegyricus, tr. J.A. Freese
		At the time of the formation of the Confederacy of Delos (B.C. 477), when the allies, disgusted at the insolence of the Spartan Pausanias, begged Aristides to assume the command of the combined fleet.
		The theôriai were festal missions to Delos, etc., and to the public games, which were conducted with great pomp and magnificence.
		The more generally accepted rendering is: "By men who are not altogether devoid of courage, but exhibit it in due proportion." Others explain toutô pragmati as = anandria, while Benseler takes it as = pleonexia (the endeavour to aggrandize oneself at the expense of others).
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/isocrates/pwisoc4.htm (14298 words)

	Dr. J's Illustrated Pericles' Funeral Oration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		And, too, the cult statue clothed at the end of the Panatheniac Procession so proudly carved into the walls of the Parthenon was certainly not the one in the Parthenon.
		It certainly appears that Pericles was influenced by Protagoras' "man is the measure of all things" approach to philosophy.
		Sophocles, consummate playwright and friend to Pericles (he even acted as Treasurer of the Confederacy of Delos, appointed by Pericles himself) struggled with the apparently irreconcilable claims of tribal affiliation (family) and those of the state, or the clash of the sacred
	lilt.ilstu.edu /DRJCLASSICS/texts/pericles/pericles.shtm (2261 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: 11th Brittanica: History of Ancient Greece
		The formation of the confederacy of Delos did not involve the dissolution of the alliance between Athens and Sparta.
		The revenue of Athens in the sth century was mainly derived from the tribute paid by her subjects; it was only in time of war that a direct tax was levied upon the citizenbody.3 In the age of Demosthenes the revenue derived from the Athenian Confederacy was insignificant.
		The whole burden of the expenses of a war fell upon the I 200 richest citizens, who were subject to direct taxation in the dual form of the Trieratchy and the Eisphora (propertytax).
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/eb11-greece.html (22278 words)

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