The Fall of the Athenian Empire-(A New History of the Peloponnesian War) Donald Kagan - (1987)

78 THE FALL OF THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE
received word that the fleet under Therimenes had arrived in time to
save Miletus, so that "the condition of the [Peloponnesian] alliance had
been improved."" Encouraged by the news and given an opportunity
by the temporary withdrawal of the Athenian fleet from Chios to
Samos, he launched attacks against Athenian positions on the coast
opposite Chios. Although given some small support by Tamos, Tissaphernes'
lieutenant in Ionia, he failed in assaults on Pteleum, near
Erythrae, and Clazomenae (see Map 3). Bad weather put an end to
the campaign and forced him to take refuge in the friendly ports of
Phocaea and Cyme. '' In these cities, he was approached by envoys
from Lesbos who urged him to assist them in a renewal of their revolt.
He would have been glad to help, but the Corinthians and other allies,
presumably including the Chians who manned ten of his twenty ships,
were reluctant because of the previous failure to bring the island over,
so he was compelled to return to Chios. There, he was soon joined
by Pedaritus, Sparta's designated governor of Chios, who was leading
a band of mercenary soldiers. These men had served Amorges and
had been taken into Spartan service after his defeat at la sus. Beginning
at Miletus late in October, Pedaritus marched them northward along
the shore as far as Erythrae, where he crossed over to Chi os. ' 9
The Lesbians once again asked Astyochus to support a renewal of
their rebellion. The navarch now had his own ships, the troops under
Pedaritus, and a force of 500 men who had been armed by Alcibiades
and Chalcideus and left on Chios as a garrison. 4 " He therefore proposed
to Pedaritus and the Chians that they take their forces to Lesbos and
cause it to revolt, for in doing so, "either they would gain more allies
or, if they failed, do harm to the Athenians."'' But Pedaritus refused,
saying he would not relinquish the Chian ships for that purpose. Our
knowledge of the details of the Spartan constitution does not allow
certainty about the correct relationship between the governor of an
allied city and the navarch. Thucydides' language seems to indicate
that Pedaritus, the governor of Chios, thought he had the right to
control the actions of the Chian fleet, regardless of the wishes of the
navarch Astyochus, whose command of the Peloponnesian vessels Pel78.31.1.
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