"Chalcidian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... abasement of Athens and the elevation of Sparta to supreme power in Greece. When it began, Athens with her allies included all the coast cities of Asia Minor as far south as Lycia, the cities bordering on the Thracian and Chalcidian shores, and nearly all the islands of the AEgean Sea. Sparta at the same time was leader in a confederacy of independent states, among which were nearly all the Peloponnesian states, besides some of those in northern Greece, those of Magna Graecia and Sicily. ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece • Various |
