04-13-2007, 07:04 PM
Herodotus provides a fairly terse description at 5.7.3. While the Athenian envoys do seem to have submitted to Darius (or rather his officials in Sardis) in order to gain the alliance they were sent to secure, their decision does not appear to have been supported by the Assembly as they were sent to only to secure an alliance, not a state of subordination.
Paul Klos
\'One day when I fly with my hands -
up down the sky,
like a bird\'
\'One day when I fly with my hands -
up down the sky,
like a bird\'
