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13.
But as the power of Hellas grew, and the
acquisition of wealth became more an object, the revenues of the states
increasing, tyrannies were by their means established almost
everywhere,—
the old form of government being hereditary monarchy
with definite prerogatives,—
and Hellas began to fit out fleets and
apply herself more closely to the sea.
[2]
It is said that the Corinthians were the first to approach the modern style
of naval architecture,
and that Corinth was the first place in Hellas where
galleys were built;
[3]
and we have Ameinocles, a Corinthian shipwright, making four ships for the
Samians.
Dating from the end of this war, it is nearly three hundred years ago that
Ameinocles went to Samos.
[4]
Again, the earliest sea-fight in history was between the Corinthians and
Corcyraeans;
this was about two hundred and sixty years ago, dating from the same time.
[5]
Planted on an isthmus, Corinth had from time out of mind been a commercial
emporium;
as formerly almost all communication between the Hellenes within and
without Peloponnese was carried on overland, and the Corinthian territory
was the highway through which it travelled.
She had consequently great money resources, as is shown by the epithet
‘wealthy’ bestowed by the old poets on the place,
and this enabled her, when traffic
by sea became more common, to procure her navy and put down piracy;
and as she could offer a mart for both branches of the trade, she acquired
for herself all the power which a large revenue affords.
[6]
Subsequently the Ionians attained to great naval strength in the reign of
Cyrus, the first king of the Persians, and of his son Cambyses,
and while
they were at war with the former commanded for a while the Ionian sea.
Polycrates also, the tyrant of Samos, had a powerful navy in the reign of
Cambyses with which he reduced many of the islands, and among them Rhenea,
which he consecrated to the Delian Apollo.
About this time also the Phocaeans, while they were founding Marseilles,
defeated the Carthaginians in a sea-fight.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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