Greece After the Peloponnesian War

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Greece After the Peloponnesian War

• Interstate relations
• Why didnt Athens recover?

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Lecture Outline

• Final Years of the War
• Terms of Peace
• What happened next?
• Lysander
• Lysander as harmost

• The Persian World
• Sparta and Thebes
• Corinthian War
• Spartas Troubles
• The Common Peace

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The Final Years of the War

• 405 Athenian fleet is attacked by Spartans and
  Corinthians
• Athenians lose 180 ships, Spartans retain 200
• Athenian treasury is empty
• 404 Spartan army invades Attica
• Athens surrenders

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The Terms of Peace

• Walls of the Piraeus
• 12 ships
• Athens is now a junior ally of Sparta
• Thirty tyrants now rule

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What happened next?

• 30 years of supremacy
• 3000 sailors, almost 200 ships
• Fate of Athens?
• Price of Persian aid?

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Lysander

• Planned strategy of battle of 405
• Ambush at Aegospotami
• Can he serve the states best interests?
• What role can he play in Sparta?

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Lysander as harmost

• Military office sent to Athens as overseer
• By 403 he is relieved of his duties by King
  Pausanias, one of the Spartan kings
• King Agis, the other Spartan king, has other
  problems . . . But he is pro-Lysander

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The Persian World

• 401 request sent to Sparta to ask for aid to
  collect mercenary troops by Cyrus
• 400 Tissaphernes asks for Greek cities
• Greeks in Asia Minor plea with Sparta for help
• Sparta prefers diplomacy
• 394 Conon (Persian General) defeats Sparta

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Sparta Thebes

• Thebes wants Sparta to destroy Athens
• Sparta has been a bit greedy with the spoils of
  war
• Thebans take in exiled Athenians

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Corinthian War 395-387

• Spartas fault
• Corinth Athens, Argos Boeotia
• Persian interests
• Divide and conquer

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Sparta is plagued by troubles

• Internal fighting
• War is on two fronts
• Cannot break up the coalition against them

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Common Peace koine eirene

• Every independent state would have autonomy and
  freedom
• This idea never really catches on
• Major city-states have too much rivalry for this
  to be popular