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	Decelea
		Decelea is situated in a pass in the Parnes range, near the source of the Cephisus river, and -according to the Athenian historian Thucydides- 120 stadia (21 kilometer) north of Athens.
		In the spring of 413, the Spartan king Agis II occupied and fortified Decelea, an act of strategic and symbolic importance.
		The capture and fortification of Decelea marked the beginning of the second phase of the Peloponnesian War, which is called the Decelean War.
	www.livius.org /de-dh/decelea/decelea.html (604 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
		Decelea is about thirteen or fourteen miles from the city of Athens, and the same distance or not much further from Boeotia; and the fort was meant to annoy the plain and the richest parts of the country, being in sight of Athens.
		Simultaneously with the fortification of Decelea, at the very beginning of spring, they sent thirty ships round Peloponnese, under Charicles, son of Apollodorus, with instructions to call at Argos and demand a force of their heavy infantry for the fleet, agreeably to the alliance.
		Demosthenes was instructed first to sail round with Charicles and to operate with him upon the coasts of Laconia, and accordingly sailed to Aegina and there waited for the remainder of his armament, and for Charicles to fetch the Argive troops.
	classics.mit.edu /Thucydides/pelopwar.7.seventh.html (6684 words)

	Decelea - LoveToKnow 1911
		Its eponymous hero, Decelus, was said to have indicated to the Tyndaridae, Castor and Pollux, the place where Theseus had hidden their sister Helen at Aphidnae; and hence there was a traditional friendship between the Deceleans and the Spartans (Herodotus ix.
		This tradition, together with the advice of Alcibiades, led the Spartans to fortify Decelea as a basis for permanent occupation in Attica during the later years of the Peloponnesian War, from 413-404 B.C. Its position enabled them to harass the Athenians constantly, and to form a centre for fugitive slaves and other deserters.
		The royal palace of Tatoi has been built on the site.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Decelea (154 words)

	Laurium
		The mines, which were the property of the state, were usually farmed out for a certain fixed sum and a percentage on the working; slave labour was exclusively employed.
		Towards the end of the 5th century the output was diminished, partly owing to the Spartan occupation of Decelea[?].
		But the mines continued to be worked, though Strabo records that in his time the tailings were being worked over, and Pausanias speaks of the mines as a thing of the past.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/la/Laurium.html (233 words)

	Decelean War / Ionian War
		After this entr'acte, the Spartans declared war again in 413 and occupied the town of Decelea near Athens; with Persian money, they built a navy and provoked revolutions in Athens' possessions in Ionia.
		The Spartan king Agis II had occupied the village of Decelea and had built a strong fort - following an advice of Alcibiades, it was rumored, as if the Spartans could not think for themselves.
		The Spartan king Agis left Decelea, his colleague Pausanias arrived with an army from the Peloponnese, and Lysander blocked Piraeus.
	www.livius.org /pb-pem/peloponnesian_war/decelean_war.html (1509 words)

	Decelea - The Wordbook Encyclopedia
		Decelea (Greek: ????????), modern Dekeleia or Dekelia, Deceleia or Decelia, previous name Tatoi was a previous source of supplies and trade route from Euboea for Athens.
		With advice from Alcibiades in 415 BCE, the former Athenian General who was wanted on Athenian charges of religious crimes, the Spartans fortified Decelea as a major Spartan army base in the later part of the Peloponnesian War, giving them control of rural Attica and isolating Athens from getting food supplies delivered by land.
		Rural Attica was a primary land route for delivery of food sources such as livestock from Euboea to Athens.
	www.thewordbook.com /Decelea (215 words)

	Decelea, Greece
		Decelea (Greek: Δεκέλεια), modern Dekeleia or Dekelia, Deceleia or Decelia, previous name Tatoi was a decisive source of supplies for Athens.
		With advise from Alcibiades, former Athenian General who was wanted on charges of religious crimes, Spartans fortified Decelea in the Peloponnesian War preventing Athens from getting supplied by land.
		This decimated Athens, who was already getting badly beat in the Sicilian Expedition.
	www.creekin.net /c3685-n73-decelea-greece.html (77 words)

	The effects of Decelea
		* Sparta resumed hostilities towards Athens with an invasion of Attica in the spring of 413 and then the construction of a fort at Decelea.
		* The Athenians were forced to keep guard by night and day because of the fort at Decelea.
		Thucydides says of the results of Decelea that "what wore them down more than anything else was the fact that they had two wars on their hands at once".
	members.ozemail.com.au /~pcbrown1/Peloponnesian/decelea.htm (177 words)

	The Baldwin Project: The Story of the Greek People by Eva March Tappan
		The country round about Decelea had been made as bare of food as the sand of the shore.
		Food could be obtained by the Athenians from the island of Euba as usual, but now it could not be brought directly across the strait to Decelea and thence to Athens; it had to come by a long sea voyage around Sunium.
		His enemies might yet bring up the old charge of mimicking the Eleusinian Mysteries; and he intended to let the ships and the army wait for their commander until he had put himself right with the priests by enabling them to celebrate the Mysteries with all the ancient honors.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=tappan&book=greek&story=fall (2621 words)

	Decelea - Qwika
		Sparta acted on Alcibiades' advice and fortified Decelea, and the force sent to relieve it...
		On the advice of Alcibiades, they fortified Decelea, near Athens, and prevented the Athenians from...
		Alcibiades and aimed the attische border plate Decelea in as permanent operating base, of from...
	www.qwika.com /find/Decelea (318 words)

	DECELEA (Gr. DeeeXeta)... - Online Information article about DECELEA (Gr. DeeeXeta)...
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	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DAH_DEM/DECELEA_Gr_DeeeXeta_an_Attic_de.html (385 words)

	Victor Davis Hanson on Peloponnesian War on National Review Online
		The creation of a fort at Decelea and the use of Persian capital to build a fleet are attributed by Thucydides and Xenophon to the advice and machinations of Alcibiades, an Athenian.
		Corinth controlled much of the lateral sea traf?c in and out of the Gulf, and all routes to and from the Peloponnese by land.
		In the first few years of the war Athens conducted massive operations abroad, but quickly learned that the permanent deployment of some 100 to 200 ships was exhausting its treasury without bringing decisive results.
	www.nationalreview.com /hanson/hanson200511110827.asp (2303 words)

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