by
Arthur Wallace Pickard, Cambridge
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
IN the year 360 B.C. the position of Athens in the Greek world was, to all appearance, a very strong one. The battle of Mantinea had put an end for the time to the rivalry of Thebes; the influence of Sparta even in the Peloponnese itself was held in check by the recently established powers of...