54: Clash at the Eurymedon

The Delian League had been campaigning in and around the Aegean for the best part of ten years. Thucydides had given us the picture of Athenian growth in power during this period with the league focusing less and less on the Persian threat and looking to police Greeks in the region before then having to turn to their own members looking to leave the league. During this period the Persian Empire was also continuing with their policies within their lands, though mostly out of the view of the Gr...