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In the summer of 481 B.C., on Athens' initiative, an assembly of delegates from Hellenic cities was called at Corinth, in order for the decision to be taken about what defensive tactics should be followed. Eventually, the only delegates (members of the congress) who turned up were those from the cities of the Peloponnesian alliance and from Plataea and Thespiae. The Thessalians and the ethnos-type states from central Hellas were ready to medize, while Argos remained neutral, in the hope that Persian victory would upset Spartan dominance in the Peloponnese. The congress was unable to agree about which line of defence the Hellenic forces should be drawn up on. In the spring of 480 B.C. there was a new congress at Corinth. At this, delegates from the cities of Thessaly bound themselves to defend the pass of Tempe, provided they were supplied with reinforcements. But when a body of troops landed in Thessaly under the leadership of the Spartan Euaenetus and Themistocles, the Thessalians did not keep their promise to put up resistance to the Persian advance, and the Hellenes withdrew.
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