Review On The Relationship Between Athens And Aigina In Greek History (before The Late 5th Century B.C.)

In Greek history,Athens played an important role in defending Persian fleet during the Salamis War.The reason is that Athens had new -built warships not longer before. Thanks to the warships and powerful navy,Athens was getting stronger and stronger after the war,which are related to the the sea power growth and overseas expansion.That the relationship between Athens and another maritime power polis,Aigina, is the key to the history of "The Athens Empire" and to the navy of Athens as well as Mediterranean world of international relations in the 5th century BC.Been located in the Attic peninsula,Athens used to be a naval power flat agricultural city-state,and, with the navy power not so strong as that of Aigina,she was attacked by Aigina several times in history as late as the time of early 5th century BC.Nevertheless,with civil contradictions been gradually adjusted,Athens got ready to get out of salloni Bay,the nearby Agina is bound to be a stumbling block,due to Athens' outward expansion required and clearing it up,her Navy began to develop at the proper time when the outbreak of the Persian war.After the war Athens toke this opportunity to beat Aigina and as such closer neighbors,and leaped for the first maritime power in Greece. Therefore,if someone want to make inspection of Athens history of the development of sea power,he had to pay attention to the relationship between Athens and Aigina.The full text is composed of three parts:the preface,main text and reference literature,while the main text is divided into four parts.Partâ… :Introduction of the basic situation of Aigina,because the degree of concern for Aigina that is much less than that for Athens in academic circle so far,it is essential to make a basic introduction. Partâ…¡:Firstly,analysize the basic reasons in three areas for contradictions arise between the Athens and Aigina:the commercial competition,ethnicidentity,geographic environment second,discuss a number of issues between Aigina and Athens namely: "the first contradiction-statues case","the progressive development"and "The undeclared war","hostage-taking case" and "the creation of Athens Navy";the development of forces for Athens to defeat Aigina are that the main reason for the contradictory gradually upgradedPartâ…¢:Athens defeated Aigina finally.This process is divided into two steps:457 BC Athens sent troops to defeat Aigina and got it as one of tributors to the empire;431BC Athens expelled the Aiginatans from their land and in place of the original inhabitants Athens sent their own setters to Aigina finallyPartâ…£:make an introduction of the Figueira'idea that Athens settlement in Aigina is not on the type of immigrants "cleruchs" but "epoikoi"Conclusion Part:it is the law of the jungle among the states that in the period of slavery history.It's far from self-governing city-states nor pure league in ancient Greek...