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The 35 pages that link to Delian League, each with the reason it gives.

• Peloponnesian WarRelated: Its transformation into Athenian rule alarmed Sparta and its allies.

• AthensRelated: Its revenues and naval power helped Athens build an empire and monumental building program.

• ParthenonRelated: Athens’ control of league resources underpinned the building program that included the Parthenon.

• Xerxes IRelated: The Persian threat after Xerxes’ invasion helped spur the league’s formation.

• PericlesRelated: Its treasury and allied contributions underwrote Athenian naval strength and, controversially, civic projects.

• ThemistoclesRelated: Its creation followed the victories made possible by the fleet Themistocles had advocated.

• Battle of PlataeaRelated: The Greek coalition’s victory helped shift resistance to Persia into a longer-term alliance.

• Acropolis of AthensRelated: Athenian control of its resources helped finance major public works.

• PhidiasRelated: The league’s resources and Athens’s growing power formed the political background to the city’s monumental building program.

• Battle of MycaleRelated: The postwar campaign against Persia developed into the alliance that became the Delian League.

• CycladesRelated: Its treasury was initially kept on Delos, linking the island to Athenian power.

• IoniaRelated: Ionian cities joined the league, bringing the region into Athens’ growing sphere of power.

• MiletusRelated: Miletus later entered the Athenian-led sphere that reshaped politics in the Aegean.

• Classical AthensRelated: Athens transformed the alliance into an empire that financed its power and building projects.

• Second Persian invasion of GreeceRelated: Its formation extended Greek naval cooperation after the invasion’s defeat.

• Athenian navyRelated: The alliance supplied ships or tribute that Athens used to sustain naval power.

• Greek city-stateRelated: Its transformation into Athenian imperial power strained relations among poleis.

• Athena ParthenosRelated: Tribute from the league helped finance Athens’s monumental public works.

• SamosRelated: Samos entered the league after the Persian Wars and became subject to Athens.

• First Peloponnesian WarRelated: Its growing Athenian control gave Sparta and its allies reason to fear Athens’s power.

• History of the Peloponnesian WarRelated: Its tribute and fleet explain Athens’ capacity to wage war far from Attica.

• MykonosRelated: Mykonos lay near Delos, the league’s early treasury and religious center.

• Athens in the 5th century BCRelated: Athens turned this anti-Persian alliance into the foundation of its maritime empire.