HISTORY 1M03 Lecture Notes - Gylippus
12 Apr 2014
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The necessity of adaption: victors of peloponnesian war(cid:224) spartans: felt little need for change after triumph [vindicated their traditional way of life, spartan victory not a victory of the spartan model, mothakes": gylippus & lysander, yet despite the declining numbers of full spartans [because population of actual spartan citizens had long been in decline]. Wealth had been dwindling [those who couldn"t pay lost their citizenship] & the falling out of the political franchise & those who couldn"t pass the games/trials [ritual in becoming spartan warrior: spartan inability to adapt to new warfare [already losing soldiers, 1681, travelling of peloponnesian league, spartan imperialism [new threat, athens overthrows "30 tyrants" and restoration of democracy, amnesty, 395 387: corinthian war. Athens, corinth, thebes, argos vs. sparta: persian gold pays for athenian walls & ships, kings peace of 387, 382: athenian/theban alliance, 378: 2nd athenian confederacy, thebes boeotian confederacy, downfall of sparta.
