CLASSICS 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gylippus, Helots, Corinthian War
13 May 2016
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Greece after the peloponnesian war: population loss, economic hardship and inequality, the erosion of the middle, social conflict, stasis, decline of citizen-hoplite: mercenaries, light-armed troops, the necessity of adaptation. Athens found itself a new enemy, thebes. Unexpectedly, stability, unity and a common peace did come to greece: only through defeat and domination of a foreign power, achieved be macedon, the greeks regarded them as barbarous and backwards but they defeated the greeks. The polis culture and society had been undermined. In order to thrive and survive, greek states had to adapt. Spartan victory not a victory of the spartan model. Mothakes: gylippus and lysander: category for poor spartans who couldn"t pay for the messes of poor. Yet despite declining numbers of full spartans, reinstatement of old ways, exclusion of hypomeiones: the inferiors, the spartans returning to the states of their society. Athens: overthrow of thirty tyrants, restoration of democracy, amnesty.
