Mytilenaeans
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in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
The people and city of Mytilene on Lesbos, the chief rebel city whose revolt from Athens and eventual surrender structure much of the window's narrative.
From respect then for the hopes of the Greeks reposed in you, and for that Olympian Jupiter in whose temple we stand in the character of suppliants, assist the Mytilenaeans by becoming their allies;
for the Tenedians, who were at variance with them, and the Methymnaeans, and even some private individuals of the Mytilenaeans, under the influence of party spirit, as proxeni of the Athenians informed that people that the Mytilenaeans were forcibly bringing [the rest of] Lesbos into union with their own city, and hurrying all their preparations for a revolt, in conjunction with the Lacedaemonians …
At the same time that the Lacedaemonians were in the neighbourhood of the isthmus, the Mytilenaeans marched by land, both themselves and their auxiliaries, against Methymna, in hope of its being betrayed to them.
Orations
Inhabitants of Mytilene, cited among Greek cities honoring the powerful with statues.
Do not the Athenians and Lacedaemonians and Byzantines and Mytilenaeans court these same men?
The Histories
People of Mytilene on Lesbos, who fought a long war against the Athenians over possession of Sigeum until Periander's arbitrated peace.
Hegesistratus, however, could not keep what Pisistratus had given him without fighting, for there was constant war over a long period of time between the Athenians at Sigeum and the Mytilenaeans at Achilleum.
As for the Mytilenaeans and Athenians, however, peace was made between them by Periander son of Cypselus, to whose arbitration they committed the matter, and the terms of peace were that each party should keep what it had.
In the course of a battle in which the Athenians had the upper hand, Alcaeus the poet took to flight and escaped, but his armor was taken by the Athenians and hung up in the temple of Athena at Sigeum.
To the Rulers of the Mytilenaeans
The civic people of Mytilene, including those reconciled to the rulers and judged by the excellence of notable citizens.
I think you have been well advised both in becoming reconciled to your fellow-citizens and, while trying to reduce the number of exiles, in increasing that of the participants in public life and also in imitating Athens in handling the sedition.
for all the world uses such men as examples and all their fellow-citizens are judged to be of like excellence.