HISTORY 1M03 Lecture Notes - Gylippus, Decelea
12 Apr 2014
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Feb 3 2014: the rules and rituals of hoplite warfare reflected the interests of the citizen farmer soldier, greek warfare was shaped by the interest to limit the duration of the warfare due to season [went to battle during seasons that farming wasn"t great, agreed that upon having disputes there were allowed a couple of encounters to decide the matter instead of long drawn out warfare [there was no strategy, no plan to win](cid:224)phalanx vs. phalanx, athens was no longer a state of citizen farmer soldiers, and athens was not a hoplite republic but an imperial, naval democracy [citizen sailors, paid from the revenues of the state and commoners, spartans culture was disciplined, conformant and conservative, athens culture was adaptive, non traditional, innovative and risk takers, athens created new innovative kind of polis and innovated a new kind of warfare, pericles city island strategy, engaging in grand strategy.
