What happened to Athenian power after the battle of the Marathon?

Answer 1

The main battle had been for the Greeks to fight a sea battle in the strait next to Thermopylai. Holding the pass forced the Persians to try to outflank the position by sea, and the Greek fleet was waiting for this.

The Greeks lost the sea battle and retired to the Strait at Salamis where they refought the sea battle and won, crippling the Persian war effort. The Athenians had meanwhile evacuated their people to other cities, and embarked for the sea battle.

After the Salamis battle, the Persians had to withdraw north for the winter, and the Athenians reoccupied their city.

Answer 2

Athens was not involved at Thermopylai - its military force was manning its fleet which was part of the Greek fleet which fought and lost a sea battle in the adjacent strait of Artemesion. The Greek fleet withdrew to fight again at Salamis and the position at Thermopylai was abandoned by the small Greek land force.

The Athenians had abandoned their city, sending their women and children for sanctuary in cities of the Peloponnese peninsula while the rest manned their fleet. Athens was occupied by the Persians in 480 and 479 BCE.

After the Persian defeats at Salamis, Plataia and Mykale, the Athenians returned to their city and rebuilt it, this time with secure walls linked to its port so as to be able to withstand indefinite seiges in future.

Answer 3

The Athenians were not in the battle of Thermopylai, they were in the navy which fought and lost the battle of Artemesion in the nearby strat.

They then evacuated their city, sending their non-combatants to refuge in cities in the Peloponense, and with their fleet participated in the naval victory at Salamis.
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Answer 4

The Athenians were not part of the force at Thermopylai. They were manning their navy, which was part of the naval force assembled at Artemesion in the nearby strait fighting the Persian fleet.

After the sea battle was lost, the fleet retired to Salamis for another try.

Meanwhile, they abandoned their city, sending their non-combatants to refuge in Peloponnesian cities.

Answer 5

They struck a rich lode of silver on their Laurion pernisula, and instead of having a great public handout as happens today, they were persuuaded by far-seeing politicians to build a fleet of warships, and so were able to contribute greatly to the Greek effort in repelling the main Persian invasion ten years later.

After this they used the fleet to dominate the Mditerranean, and could have had a long happy future, but overstepped the mark and lost their empire (interestingly, the Persians gave the Spartan alliance the money to build a fleet to match the Athenian one).

Answer 6

The Persians won the the Battle of Thermopylae led by Xerxes. It was the Spartans that lost under Leonidas. Afterward the Persians raided Greece, burnt Athens and eventually return to Persia.

Answer 7

They turned the Delian League which they had led against the Persian Empire into an empire of their own and lived high on the proceeds they mulcted from those Greek cities.

Answer 8

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