Potidaeans
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the Potidaeans
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
The people of Potidaea, Corinthian colonists but Athenian tributary subjects, whose revolt and subsequent siege form the second major cause of the war.
While the Corinthians were contriving how to avenge themselves on them, the Athenians, suspecting their hostility, ordered the Potidaeans, who live on the isthmus of Pallene, being colonists of the Corinthians, but their own subjects and tributaries, to throw down the wall towards Pallene, and give hostages;
After the battle the Athenians erected a trophy, and gave back their dead to the Potidaeans under truce.
but the remaining force of the Potidaeans and Peloponnesians was beaten by the Athenians, and fled within the wall for refuge.
The Histories
The people of Potidaea who revolt from Persia, uncover Timoxenus' betrayal plot, and survive Artabazus' siege thanks to a providential flood.
The Potidaeans say that the cause of the high sea and flood and the Persian disaster lay in the fact that those same Persians who now perished in the sea had profaned the temple and the image of Poseidon which was in the suburb of the city.
When the king had marched away past the town and the Persian fleet had taken flight from Salamis, Potidaea had openly revolted from the barbarians and so too had the rest of the people of Pallene.
Timoxenus ' plot to betray Potidaea was, however, discovered, for Artabazus in shooting an arrow to the place agreed upon, missed it and hit the shoulder of a man of Potidaea.