CLAS 1000 Lecture 10: Peloponnesian War 431

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

490-479 bc a time of war and conflict. 481 bc sparta and athens put aside their dislike of each other to defeat the persians at salamis and thermopylae. After the peloponnesian war the world split in two, the two victors divided up the countries between themselves. Athens formed delian league, spartan formed their own defense pact called the. Historian = thucydides writes the story of the peloponnesian war. Analyzes the cause of the war between athens and sparta afterwards > the growth of power in. Athens threatened and intimidated sparta, so they preemptively struck. Source of athens great power was their navy (themistocles invested in building powerful navy, creating a sort of thalassocracy) delian league = maritime league, Athens joined with many islands and city-states along the mediterranean sea. Athens prevented city-states from leaving the delian league (naxos and thasos), Athens imposed massive fines forcing them to pay athens to support the navy.