The Twitter Herodotus

5.81 The images didn't help, so the Boeotians asked for men. The Aeginetans, remembering their enmity w/Athens, attacked the Athenian coast.

5.82 The enmity began after the Epidaurians carved images from Attic olive trees. In return they agreed to make annual offerings to Athena.

5.83 The Aeginetans and Epidaurians fell out, and the Aeginetans stole the sacred images and set them up in their own land.

5.84 The Epidaurians stopped making their annual offerings. The Athenians, angered, demanded Aegina hand over the images, but they refused.

5.85 The Athenians say they sent men to Aegina to take the images, but they went crazy and killed each other. Only one of them survived.

5.86 The Aeginetans say the Athenians attacked with a fleet, and their Argive allies came to help & cut the Athenians off from their ships.

5.87 But all agree only one survived. When he got back to Athens, the wives of the men who'd died stabbed him to death w/their brooch pins.

5.88 After that, the Athenians made their women stop using brooch pins. And in Argos & Aegina laws required that brooch pins be 50% longer.

5.89 So the Aeginetans helped the Boeotians. An oracle said the Athenians shd wait 30 yrs before fighting Aegina, but they didn't want to.

5.90 Athens thus prepared for war. Meanwhile, the Spartans found out the Alcmaeonidae had bribed Delphi to get the Spartans to oust Hippias.