The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . andentered Persian service. Now, in 394, in command of a Persian fleet (mainly-made up of Phoeni-cian ships) he com-pletely destroyed theSpartan naval powerat the battle of Cnirdus. Spartan authorityin the Aegean van-ished. Conon sailedfrom island to island,expelling the Spartangarrisons, and restor-ing democracies; andin the next year heanchored in the Pi-raeus and rebuilt theLong Walls. Athensagain became one ofthe great powers; andSparta fell back intoher old position asmere head of the in-land Peloponnesianleague. 260. Peace of Antalci
The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . andentered Persian service. Now, in 394, in command of a Persian fleet (mainly-made up of Phoeni-cian ships) he com-pletely destroyed theSpartan naval powerat the battle of Cnirdus. Spartan authorityin the Aegean van-ished. Conon sailedfrom island to island,expelling the Spartangarrisons, and restor-ing democracies; andin the next year heanchored in the Pi-raeus and rebuilt theLong Walls. Athensagain became one ofthe great powers; andSparta fell back intoher old position asmere head of the in-land Peloponnesianleague. 260. Peace of Antalcidas, 387 — After a few more yearsof indecisive war, Sparta sought peace with Persia. In 387,the two powers invited all the Greek states to send deputies toSardis, where the Persian king dictated the terms. The documentread t — King Artaxerxes deems it just that the cities in Asia, with the islandsof Clazomenae and Cyprus, should belong to himself. The rest of the Hel-lenic cities, both great and small, he will leave independent, save Lemnos,. The Hermes of Praxiteles. The arms and legs of the statue are sadly muti-lated, but the head is one of the most famousremains of Greek art. Cf. § 220, note. § 262] THEBES — LEUCTRA 255 Imbros, and Scyros, which three are to belong to Athens as of any of the parties not accept this peace, I, Artaxerxes, togetherwith those who share my views [the Spartans], will war against theoffenders by land and sea. —Xenephon, HeUenica, v, 1. Sparta held that these terms dissolved all the other leagues(like the Boeotian, of which Thebes was the head), but thatthey did not affect her own contiol over her subject towns inLaconia, nor weaken the Peloponnesian confederacy. Thus Persia and Sparta again conspired to betray helped Sparta to keep the European Greek states dividedand weak, as they were before the Persian War; and Spartahelped Persia to recover her old authority over the AsiaticGreeks. By this iniquity the
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