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Rufus B. Richardson disagrees that the Lelantine plain was not the object of the war adding,

Rufus B. Richardson disagrees that the Lelantine plain was not the object of the war adding,

:"In the long period of prosperity before the Lelantine War, which made Chalcis and Eretria famous, a sad emerging into history, the two cities went hand in hand.  This Curtius finds indicated by the name "Eubœic talent," supposing that had the cities been antagonistic the talent would have been named after one or the other of them.  Perhaps they made a mistake in founding colonies conjointly or near together, as in Chalcidice.  When the war broke out it is supposed to have been conducted with a bitterness which seems to have been born years before.  It is not unlikely that colonial troubles had as much to do with the break as the rich plain between the two cities.  The quarrel was fought out with the help of many allies on each side.  The Greek world was divided into two hostile camps, a division which showed itself for centuries.  Eretria was vanquished without losing her independence or her honorable standing...

:"In the long period of prosperity before the Lelantine War, which made Chalcis and Eretria famous, a sad emerging into history, the two cities went hand in hand.  This [Ernst] Curtius finds indicated by the name "Eubœic talent," supposing that had the cities been antagonistic the talent would have been named after one or the other of them.  Perhaps they made a mistake in founding colonies conjointly or near together, as in Chalcidice.  When the war broke out it is supposed to have been conducted with a bitterness which seems to have been born years before.  It is not unlikely that colonial troubles had as much to do with the break as the rich plain between the two cities.  The quarrel was fought out with the help of many allies on each side.  The Greek world was divided into two hostile camps, a division which showed itself for centuries.  Eretria was vanquished without losing her independence or her honorable standing...

:"The date of the Lelantine War is shown by [Ernst] Curtius to have been the middle of the eighth century B.C.<ref>Richardson, Rufus B. (1891).  "Eretria: A historical sketch". ''Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens'', vol. 6, p. 61.</ref>

:"The date of the Lelantine War is shown by Curtius to have been the middle of the eighth century B.C.<ref>Richardson, Rufus B. (1891).  "Eretria: A historical sketch". ''Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens'', vol. 6, p. 61.</ref>