CLST 332 Lecture 23: Lecture23
28 Nov 2017
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The iron age to the end of the persian wars. Persians decided to try and conquer all of mainland greece. They seem to target eretria on the mainland. This is the easiest way to get to athens (you walk there) Hippias is fairly old at this time. He appears to guide the persians who want to put him in power as tyrant (under. Athenians aren"t happy about this and try and resist the persians. Spartans agree to come after religious festival. Debate going on about whether the spartans were trying to just observe the letter being made, or wanting to see athens destroyed. Tim thinks that the spartans were being honest. Spartans = scrupulous about their religious rituals. Relatively small athenian land force arrives at marathon. They didn"t muster a larger number of troops for some reason. Even though they had a massive fleet. 10 generals hesitate to engage without spartans. Fear about persians sailing around to phalerum.
