CLAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Peloponnesian War, The Persians, Bucephalus

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

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Lecture 15 - october 15, 2014 alexander the great. The peloponnesian war: results in the decline of each of the two big powers athens and sparta, and even though sparta won they are in no position to make any advances because of the damage they sustained. This makes way for thebes to take power. They developed a new kind of spear, called the. It is much longer, and the armour of the soldier was reduced. The sarissa phalanx, was able to become the dominant city state in greece. Part of their policy to keep peace was to demand hostages from other greek states. While at thebes, he was instructed in the new style of warfare, the. When he went back to macedonia and took the throne, he used this knowledge to take over all of greece with the sarissa phalanx. His son, alexander, would take his father"s army and conquered all of the persian empire, to as far as india.