Potidea Greece

The newest Athenian colony is disconcertingly close to another outpost of Corinthian influence at Potidaea in the Chalcidice, and there is a possibility that Athens subjects Potidaea itself to financial pressure by the mid-430s.

An anomaly in being both tributary to Athens and simultaneously subject to direct rule by magistrates sent out annually by Corinth, Potidaea clearly is a sensitive spot in international relations.

Potidaea revolts and an unofficial Corinthian force goes out to help.

Potidaea is laid under siege by Athens, with Phormio in command.

Alcibiades, well-born and wealthy, had been only a small boy when his father—who was in command of the Athenian army—was killed in 447 or 446 BCE, at Coronea in Boeotia, and his guardian, Pericles, a distant relation, has been too preoccupied with political leadership to provide the guidance and affection that the boy needed.

Alcibiades has grown up to be a strikingly handsome and keen-witted teenager, but he is extravagant, irresponsible, and self-centered as well.

He is, however, impressed by the moral strength and the keen mind of the philosopher Socrates, who, in turn, is strongly attracted by Alcibiades' beauty and intellectual promise.

They serve together at Potidaea, where Socrates defends Alcibiades when the latter is wounded.

Potidaea has surrendered, and a cleruchy is installed here too, a further Corinthian setback, in 430 BCE.

The Olynthians have every reason to be alarmed at Philip's dazzlingly rapid progress, which continues with the taking of Potidaea in Khalkidhikí.

Cassander, the eldest son of the late regent Antipater and from 305 king of Macedon, has proven to be a diplomat.

He has founded two great cities, Cassandreia, built upon the ruins of Potidea, and …