. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. Pericles and Aspasia. CHAPTER XL THE PE LOPONNE SI AN WAR.—FIRST PERIOD, FROM THE COMMENCE-MENT OF THE WAR TO THE PEACE OF NICIAS, 431-421. War was now fairly kindled. All Greece looked on in suspenseas its two leading cities were about to engage in a strife of whichno man could foresee the end; but the youth, with which bothAthens and Peloponnesus then abounded, having had no expe-rience of the bitter calamities of war, rushed into it with was a war of principles and races. Athens was a champion ofdem
. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. Pericles and Aspasia. CHAPTER XL THE PE LOPONNE SI AN WAR.—FIRST PERIOD, FROM THE COMMENCE-MENT OF THE WAR TO THE PEACE OF NICIAS, 431-421. War was now fairly kindled. All Greece looked on in suspenseas its two leading cities were about to engage in a strife of whichno man could foresee the end; but the youth, with which bothAthens and Peloponnesus then abounded, having had no expe-rience of the bitter calamities of war, rushed into it with was a war of principles and races. Athens was a champion ofdemocracy, Sparta of aristocracy; Athens represented the Ionictribes, Sparta the Dorian; the former were fond of novelty, thelatter were conservative and stationary; Athens had the commandof the sea, Sparta was stronger upon land. On the side of Spartawas ranged the whole of Peloponnesus, except Argos and Achaia,together with the Megarians, Boeotians, Phocians, Opuntian Lo-crians, Ambraciots, Leucadians, and Anactorians. The allies ofAthens, with the exception of the Thessa
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