CLASSICS 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Peloponnesian War, Hoplite, Gylippus
14 Apr 2015
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History 1m03 lecture 12: the paradoxical history of c4th greece, sparta chose to spare the city but to supress athens democracy, by 371 the situation had been reversed. Sparta had been reduced permanently to the state of minor power. Athens had democracy restored and come back so strongly to get domination over greece. Ever shifting alliances among the greek states. But then unexpectedly a common peace was established but only through the defeat of the city states: greece after the peloponnesian war, population loss, economic hardship and inequality. After 404 greece was unable to return to the things that were before the war. Reduced the population of many of the greek polis: by as much as half. Loss and disruption of population left them depressed: the erosion of the middle, social conflict, stasis. Not just a story of economic hardship but also an increase of economic inequality. The small holder farmer was eroded in the 4th century.
