Greece after the Peloponnesian War: • Nature and impact of the Spartan hegemony; role and significance of Lysander‚ Agesilaus - Sparta won the Peloponnesian War. The war had ruined many states economically and spiritually. A true leader was needed. Thucydides believed Sparta would unite Greece and lead through goodwill. However‚ during the war Sparta had medised and sold the Ionian states to the Persians. Sparta could hardly claim to be the ‘liberator of the Greeks’. - Sparta had however earned
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it rose to become the dominant military land-power in ancient Greece. Given its military pre-eminence‚ Sparta was recognized as the overall leader of the combined Greek forces during the Greco-Persian Wars. Between 431 and 404 BC‚ Sparta was the principal enemy of Athens during the Peloponnesian War‚ from which it emerged victorious‚ though at great cost. Sparta ’s defeat by Thebes in the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC ended Sparta ’s prominent role in Greece. However‚ it maintained its political independence
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Socrates’ analyses of the fate of Athenian democracy in war‚ of why the Athenians went to war‚ and of how and why they failed. The Peloponnesian War was the turning point in Athenian hegemony in Ancient Greece. It was fought in 431 B.C. between the Delian League‚ led by Athens‚ and the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. According to Thucydides‚ Athens’ imposing hegemonic status and its overwhelming quest for more power made the Peloponnesian War and Athens’s eventual fall from power inevitable. Despite
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GREECE TIMES Socrates‚ our Greek philosopher‚ has profoundly affected our philosophy. Born in Athens‚ the son of Sophroniscus‚ he received the regular elementary education in literature‚ music‚ and gymnastics. He familiarized himself with the rhetoric and dialectics of the Sophists‚ the speculations of the lonian philosophers‚ and the general culture of Periclean Athens. I interviewed Socrates outside of his cell after his trial. He had just finished talking
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the exact point at which our empire shall stop; we have reached a position in which we must not be content with retaining but must scheme to extend it‚ for if we cease to rule others‚ we are in danger of being ruled ourselves” (Thucydides‚ The Peloponnesian War ). In a manic state of transcending pride and a fear of regression‚ the Athenian people move to try and conquer sicily despite their being no positive to their invasion and ultimately the Athenians suffer for their self inflicted hubris with
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decided to attack Greece. From the two decades of Greco-Persian war‚ it was the Athens and her allies who came out victorious eventually. After the war‚ there was a discussion between the alliance about the continuation of the war against Persia. Some states like Sparta were against the war and believed the war is over however some others like Athens relied on extension of war against Persia. Eventually the cities who were for the war‚ met in the holly island of delos and had formed the Delian league
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similar because during the second Persian War‚ the two worked together to defeat a common enemy. The Sparta and Athens were different because the Sparta were ruled by two kings‚ until they either died or were forced out of office. On the other hand‚ Athens were ruled by archons who were normally elected annually. The Persian Wars took place from 490 BC to 489 BC. The Persians had attacked Greece under their leader‚ Xerxes the Great. The Peloponnesian War took place from 431 BC to 404 BC. It was
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learnt many things about interacting with foreign people understanding about others idea. Those two speeches are been available after the last year of Peloponnesian war. These encourage individuals to fight for their city and protect it. Those speech “Plato’s Menexenus pericles’ Funeral Oration” was published for Athens people because they had war with Persian at this time and those political and social speech encouraged people to preserve the achievement of their countries because their city was
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major city states around Thebes as well as Theban advantages. It will draw on the format used by John Buckler2 by dividing the reasons for Thebes’ short hegemony (371-362 BC) into external factors including the weakening of Athens after the Peloponnesian war and the growing irrelevance of Sparta as a result of population decline and the inconclusive Corinthian
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theories and opinions as to what caused the decline of the Golden Age. Was it the war with Sparta? A war that devastated both sides of the conflict. The Plague‚ of 431 BCE‚ that not only changed the demographics of the city state but also the moral compass of its citizens?
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