CLASS280 Lecture 9: 4th Century Greece
5 Apr 2016
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Pressure from lysander -> athenians elect 30 to draft a new constitution (return to ancestral law) Spartan garrison, creation of a list of 3000 to retain citizen rights reign of terror - sycophants, metics (lysias) Democrats and opponents of thirty ee athens and regroup in megara and thebes. Group of exiles under the command of thrasybulus seizes phyle. Unsuccessful attempt of thirty to dislodge democratic resistance from phyle. Reconciliation (role of pausanias) general amnesty, restoration of democracy. Casualty of thirty was the philosopher socrates; perceived as a threat to democracy. Charged him with impiety and corruption of youth. Tissaphernes accuses cyrus of plotting against artaxerxes; sent back to asia minor. Assembles army of greek mercenaries in asia minor. Clearchus (spartan exile); musters force of over 10,00 greek hoplites. Persian mentality -kill king (cyrus); clearchus maintains traditional hoplite formation. Remnants of 10,000 employed by sparta in war against persia demonstrates tactical superiority of greeks against persia.
