sentences:  ; Thucydides reports it in book three of his "History of the Peloponnesian War", and uses the events and the speeches as a major opportunity to reflect and to offer his views on the political and ideological impact of the war on the parties involved.Mytilene was one of the last non-tributary members of the Delian League which chose to man their own warships and send subjects to fight alongside the Athenian fleet.Mytilene feared tributary democracy and did not want to be reduced to the status of other Athenian allies.