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Digital Hammer Abbey.com for more information. The So, Hello, I'm Ryanstead, and welcome back to the history of ancient Greece.

Episode 104, The Democratic Empire strikes back.

Despite domestic upheaval from 411 to 410 BC,

the vigor that the weekend disorganized

Democratic Athenian forces at Samos

showed in carrying on the war effort against Sparta was remarkable.

Of course, their efforts were aided by the timidness and ineptitude of the Sparta Navark,

Astiocis, who commanded the Peloponnesian fleet at Melitis.

Initially, he had refused to attack the Athenians under the guise that he was waiting for the arrival of the Phoenician fleet, which Tissiferines had promised would be forthcoming.

But as the months dragged on in early 4-11 BC, and it became clear that Tissiferines had duped them again. He began to face mounting pressure and complaints

from a Syracusan and Peloponnesian soldiers who demanded that they finally fight a decisive

naval engagement.

And so, in mid-June of 4-11 BC, eventually acquiesced to his men and ordered all 112 of their ships

to put out the sea. While the Maliansians marched by land to Mount

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