Identifier: HistoryOfGreeceForHighSchoolsAndAcademies (find matches)
Title: History of Greece for High Schools and Academies
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Botsford, George Willis, 1862-1917
Subjects: Greece -- History
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.

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rit; but they were disunited and insub-ordinate, and allowed themselves to be influenced by secretagents from the enemy. At the very opening of the battle,many ships treacherously sailed away, and though a fewremained and fought bravely, the battle was lost. TheAsiatic Greeks at Lade proved incapable of self-govern-ment. United resistance was now at an end, and the sepa-rate states were subdued one by one or surrendered to avoidattack. The Persians brought the war to a close by thecapture of Miletus after a siege of four years. They plun-dered and burned the city together with its temples, andcarried the people into captivity; and thus they blotted outof existence the fairest city of Hellas, the city which up tothis time had done most in building up European civiliza-tion. Though it was again inhabited by Greeks, it neverregained its former splendor. The Persian governor atSardis now compelled the Greek communities to live atpeace with each other, and to settle their disputes by arbi-
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Europe and Asia at War 115 tration. They recovered much of their prosperity; butwith the suppression of their liberties, they ceased to con-tribute to the civilization of the world. The intellect, Pp. of., 105fspirit, and morals of the Ionians so degenerated underbondage that the Athenians, a half century later, wereashamed to call them kinsmen. The Athenians were intensely interested in the fortunes Phrynichusof the war, as their own safety seemed to depend upon the fined*success of the Greeks, and the fall of Miletus filled themwith grief and fear. Phrynichus of Athens, soon after thisevent, composed a drama, The Capture of Miletus. Butwhen it was put on the stage, the spectators fell to weeping, Hdt. vi, 21.and the Athenians fined the poet a thousand drachmas forreminding them of their own calamities; and they orderedthat no one in the future should represent this drama. The fall of Miletus was indeed an evil omen to Europe; Europe andfor in the fifteen years which followed this mi

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