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CONTENTS. VOL. X. PART II. CONTINUATION OF HISTORICAL GREECE. CHAPTER LXXVI. FROM THE PEACE OF ANTALKIDAS DOWN TO THE SUBJUGATION CJ OLYNTHUS BY SPARTA. Peace or convention of Antalkidas. Its import and character. Separate partnership between Sparta and Persia. Degradation in the form of the convention an edict drawn tip, issued, and enforced, by Persia upon Greece. Gradual loss of Pan-hellenic dignity, and increased submission towards Persia as a means of purchasing Persian help on the part of Sparta. Her first application before the Peloponnesian war ; subsequent applications. Active partnership between Sparta and Persia against Athens, after the Athenian catastrophe at Syracuse. Athens is ready to follow her example. The Persian force aids Athens against Sparta, and breaks up her maritime empire. No excuse for the subservience of Sparta to the Persians. Evidence that Hellenic independence was not des- tined to last much longer. Promise of universal autonomy popular to the Grecian ear how carried out. The Spartans never intended to grant, nor ever really granted, general autonomy. Immediate point made against Corinth and Thebes isolation of Athens. Persian af- fairs unavailing efforts of the Great King to reconquer Egj'pt. Eva- goras, despot of Salamis in Cyprus. Descent of Evagoras condition of the island of Cyprus. Greek princes of Salamis are dispossessed by a Phoenician dynasty. Evagoras dethrones the Phoenician, and becomes despot of Salamis. Able and beneficent government of Evagoras. His anxiety to revive Hellenism in Cyprus he looks to the aid of Athens. Relations of Evagoras with Athens during the closing years of the Peloponnesian war. Evagoras at war with the Persians he receives aid both from Athens and from Egypt he is at first very successful, so as even to capture Tyre. Struggle of Evagoras against the whole forcb of the Persian empire after the peace of Antalkidas. Evagoras, after a ten years' war, is reduced, but obtains an honorable peace, mainly owing to the dispute between the two satraps jointly commanding. Assassi- nation of Evagoras, as well as of his son Pnytagoras, by an eunuch slave of Nikokreon. Nikokles, son of Evagoras, becomes despot of Salamis. Great power gained by Sparta through the peace of Antalkidas. She becomes practically mistress of Corinth, and the Corinthian isthmus. Miso-Theban tendencies of Sparta especially of Agesilaus. The Spar- tans restore Platsea. Former conduct of Sparta towards Plataea. Mo- tives of Sparta in restoring Platae. A politic step, as likely to sever Thebes from Athens. Platae becomes a dependency and outpost of Sparta, Main object of Sparta to prevent the reconstitution of the Boeotiad fed- eration Spartan policy at this time directed by the partisan spirit of