caa a22 4500 388082143 CHVBK 20180307125219.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/gr/46.2.168 doi S0017383500026243 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1093/gr/46.2.168 Goušchin Valerij Athenian Synoikism of the Fifth Century B.C., or Two Stories of Theseus [Elektronische Daten] [Valerij Goušchin] On the eve of the Peloponnesian War Athens was a great urban agglomeration. It was almost invulnerable to an enemy. So in 431 B.C. the Athenians began to migrate from the countryside into the city on the advice of Pericles (Thuc. 2.14-16). This recalled to Thucydides the time of Theseus (Thuc. 2.15). S. Hornblower regards this migration as the long-postponed physical synoikism, or synoikism in its physical aspect. He insists on the difference between political and physical synoikism, the former being the political unification of the state and the latter mainly the migration into the city. But the Athenians did not migrate into the city for the first time in 431. At the time of Xerxes' invasion the inhabitants of Attica were to be moved into the city before being evacuated to Salamis and elsewhere, and the invasion made their vulnerability clear to the Athenians. They suffered two evacuations, the devastation of Attica and the substantial destruction of Athens. Through driving back the Persians Athens became the leader of the Delian League and acquired great naval power. The change of Athens' position in the Greek world and the damage caused by the Persians necessitated a major reconstruction of the town. The Athenians began with the town and harbour. They built the walls of the city and of the Piraeus first of all. Beforelong the Piraeus had been built on a large scale. In these years the Athenians remembered Theseus again, and he now gained honour and esteem among all the Athenians. Copyright © The Classical Association 1999 Greece and Rome Cambridge University Press 46/2(1999-10), 168-187 0017-3835 46:2<168 1999 46 GAR https://doi.org/10.1093/gr/46.2.168 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/gr/46.2.168 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Goušchin Valerij NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Greece and Rome Cambridge University Press 46/2(1999-10), 168-187 0017-3835 46:2<168 1999 46 GAR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge