The Athenians' Struggle to Protect Pata Dia

Pata dia was of. immense importance to the Athenians Apart from its richness and natural resources and a favorable trading location It also was the main bulwark against the eastward expansion of Macedon whose current king Perdicos II was no longer on friendly terms with Athens. The Pata deans sent envoys to the Peloponnesians just as the Thesians had once done To ask them that if they rebelled and were attacked by Athens Would they help them by invading Attica? These cities reports that Corinthian envoys helped them extract a promise from some Spartan authorities Probably the E-4s that Sparta would in fact invade Attica if Pata di