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.
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.
then indeed, at that favourable moment, they revolted with the Chalcidians and Bottiaeans, having entered into a league together.
The Histories
The people of Potidaea who revolt from Persia, uncover Timoxenus' betrayal plot, and survive Artabazus' siege thanks to a providential flood.
Some of them who did not know how to swim were drowned, and those who knew were slain by the Potidaeans, who came among them in boats.
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.
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.