. of aseparate temple at Naucratis. Their com-merce extended into the interior of Africa,partly through their relations with Cyrene,and also by means of a settlement which theyeffected in one of the Oases, seven daysjourney from Thebes. The Samians nowbecame subject to the Persian empire: theisland was netted in Persian fashion,nearly all the men hunted down and destroyed,and then Samos was handed over to Syloson,brother of Polycrates. (Hdt. iii. 120-125.) TheSamians were governed by tyrants, with abrief interval at the time of the I
. of aseparate temple at Naucratis. Their com-merce extended into the interior of Africa,partly through their relations with Cyrene,and also by means of a settlement which theyeffected in one of the Oases, seven daysjourney from Thebes. The Samians nowbecame subject to the Persian empire: theisland was netted in Persian fashion,nearly all the men hunted down and destroyed,and then Samos was handed over to Syloson,brother of Polycrates. (Hdt. iii. 120-125.) TheSamians were governed by tyrants, with abrief interval at the time of the Ionic revolt,until the battle of Mycale, which made them independent, 479. They now joined theAthenian confederacy, of which they continuedindependent members until 440, when anopportunity arose for reducing them to entiresubjection and depriving them of their fleet,which was effected by Pericles after an obsti-nate resistance of nine months duration. (Forthe details see the Histories of Greece.) In thePeloponnesian war, Samos held firmly to Athens. Coin of Samos, late in 4th century lions scalp; rev. 2A: hthsianaS (magistratesname); forepart of an ox. to the last, and in the history of the latterpart of that war the island becomes extremelyimportant as the head-quarters of the exileddemocratical party of the Athenians. Trans-ferred to Sparta after the battle of Aegos-potami, 405, it was soon restored to Athens bythat of Cnidus, 394, but went over to Spartaagain in 390. Soon after, it fell into the handsof the Persians, being conquered by the satrapTigranes; but it was recovered by Timotheusfor Athens. In the Social war, the Athenianssuccessfully defended it against the attacks ofthe confederated Chians, Rhodians, and Byzan-tines, and placed in it a body of 2000 cleruchi, 352. After Alexanders death, it was takenfrom the Athenians by Perdiccas, 323; butrestored to them by Polysperchon 319. In thesubsequent period, it seems to have beenrather nominally than
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