CLASSICS 1M03 Lecture 9: Classics 1M03 Lecture 9.docx
14 Apr 2015
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Classics 1m03 lecture 9: pentekontaetia: 479-431, the 50 years, 470s: Greek alliance had resisted invasion and ran out persia and tried to stop panhellenism greeks vs barbarians them from coming back. Leader: sparta: defensive spartans and proactive athenians. Spartans were a deeply conservative inward looking people: exclusivity of narrow citizen army and to keep down the hellots, suspicious of the outside world. Athenians rebuild their city and realized that an anti-persian alliance is going to have to lie with them: democracy allows them to move to a new kind of war, a permanent standing navy, the athenian naval revolution. To patrol the aegean and keeping the persians from controlling the sea. Sparta was unenthusiastic: turned to their own affairs. Each members was to pay dues in order to maintain the fleet. Smaller poor cities would pay less than larger wealthy cities.
