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and again I think,
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it's easy to believe that
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a lot of that pressure is coming from that hoplite farmer class
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that is becoming more important
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and more demanding all the time.
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Another change in the old placid life of
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the early Athenian republic,
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as we imagine it to be,
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is the conquest by the Athenians
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of the Island of Salamis that lies in the Saronic Gulf
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to the west of Attica between Attica and Megara.
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Athens and Megara will contest