The result was the Delian League, a sort of ancient equivalent ... for its own imperial ambitions. By 454, when the League's treasury was transferred to Athens and used to fund monuments of ...

For example, because the structure housed the Delian League's financial reserves, some experts maintain that the early Parthenon was little more than a treasury. Other scholars suggest that the ...

To counter Sparta, Athens established the Delian League, requiring member states to store their gold at the Delian Treasury and adopt Athenian coinage. At a later stage, Athenians moved the Delian ...