Description: A map of Athens, Greece, during the First Peloponnesian War (460-445 BC), showing the Long Walls and fortifications of Athens under Pericles. "Pericles followed the policy of Themistocles in seeking first of all to make Athens an impregnable city. The fortifications erected by Themistocles about Athens and about Piræus had created two separate centers of defense. Pericles desired to unite these two places by one system of defensive works, and thus to prevent Athens from being cut off from her harbor and from the rest of the world. This defensive system may have been begun by Cimon; but it was completed by Pericles. One of the new walls, the southern, ran from the city to the Bay of Phalerum; and another, the northern, ran to the harbor of Piræus. In a few years a third and middle wall was erected near and parallel to the northern one, the two together being known as the "Long Walls." These formed a wide and secure avenue from the city to Piræus. Athens and Piræus were thus united in a single fortified area, which formed a military and naval base of operation for the whole empire." — William C. Morey, pp. 210-211
Place Names: Greece, Acropolis, Athens, Phalerum, Piraeus,
ISO Topic Categories: oceans,
location,
inlandWaters
Keywords: The Long Walls of Athens, borders,
political,
historical, major political subdivisions, other military, oceans,
location,
inlandWaters, Unknown, 457 BC
Source: William C. Morey, Outlines in Greek History with a survey of Ancient Oriental Nations (New York, NY: The Athenium Press, 1908) 210
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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