The Landmark Herodotus by Robert B. Strassler

Author:Robert B. Strassler [Strassler, Robert B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-53654-9
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2007-01-05T16:00:00+00:00

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ATHENS

The Athenians receive a Delphic oracle advising them to wait thirty years for vengeance against Aegina.

So that is how the enmity of the Athenians toward the Aeginetans began. And at this time,a when the Thebansb called on the Aeginetans for help, the Aeginetans resolutely invoked the controversy over the statues and the events surrounding them and rushed to the aid of the Boeotians. [2] They began laying waste to the coastal regions of Attica, but just as the Athenians were setting out to wage war against them, an oracle from Delphi came to them which advised them to refrain from responding to the crime of the Aeginetans for the next thirty years, but that in the thirty-first year they should assign a precinct to the hero Aiakosa and begin the war against Aegina. In this way they would attain their goals. If, on the other hand, they began a war immediately, they would both suffer and accomplish a great deal in the intervening years, but they would nevertheless prevail in the end. [3] When the Athenians had heard the report of this oracle, they appointed a precinct for Aiakos, the one which is now set up in the agora,abut they could not endure hearing the advice that they should wait thirty years to start the war because of the injuries they had suffered at the hands of the Aeginetans.

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