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 lO RETURN OF THE HERACLIDAE [i quarrels too arose in nearly every city, and those who Southward move, ^^re expelled by them went and ment in Hellas after founded Other citles. Thus in the the Trojan War; Boeo- sixtieth year after the fall of Troy, the lans «^«' o»</ of gQgojia^ people, having been expelled Ihessaha; Dortan vc- i r » o r cupation of the Pclo- "*om Arne by the Thessalians, settled ponnesus; Ionian and in the Country formerly Called Cadmeis, Dorian colonies. ^^^ ^^^ Boeotia : a portion of the tribe already dwelt there, and some of these had joined in the Trojan expedition. In the eightieth year after the war, the Dorians led by the Heraclidae conquered the Peloponnesus. A considerable time elapsed before Hellas became finally settled ; after a while, however, she re- covered tranquillity and began to send out colonies. The Athenians colonised Ionia and most of the islands; the^ Peloponnesians the greater part of Italy and Sicily, and various places in Hellas. These colonies were all founded after the Trojan War. 13 As Hellas grew more powerful and the acquisition of Rise of navies in Hel- Wealth became more and more rapid, las: Corinth, Corcyra, the revenues of her cities increased, Ionia, Samos, Phocaea. ^^ j j^ ^^^^ ^f ^^^^ tyrannies Were established ; they had hitherto been ruled by hereditary kings, having fixed prerogatives. The Hellenes likewise began to build navies and to make the sea their element. The Corinthians are said to have first adopted some- thing like the modern style of marine, and the oldest Hellenic triremes to have been constructed at Corinth. A Corinthian ship-builder, Ameinocles, appears to have built four ships for the Samians ; he went to Samos B C. 704. about three hundred years before the end of the Pelo- 01. 19. -' ponnesian War. And the earliest naval engagement on record is that between the Corinthians and Corcyraeans B.C. 664. which occurred about forty years later. Corinth, being seated on an isthmus, was naturally from the first a centre of commerce; for the Hellenes within and without the Peloponnese in the old days, when they communicated