CLAB05H3 Lecture 5: Democracy and Empire-Athens and Syracuse
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Week 5-chapter 13 democracy and empire: athens and. Gelon dedicated a golden tripod @ delphi to glorify his success. Gelon"s brother hiero whom gelon left gela to, handed it over to another brother. Hiero claimed that the battles of himera and cumae were the same to plataea and. Sicilian cities signed a common resolution and the sicilian poleis = free. Population boomed, wealth by exporting produce, grand houses. Ionians refused to migrate to sparta for protection. Pausania, the hero of plataea wrote to xerxes offering to betray greece for xerxes daughter"s hand. Themistocles, aristides, and cimon saw opportunity to take control of an aegean alliance + use its navy power to protect athenian trade routes. People did not trust themistocles =aim @ tyranny. Instead of attacking athens, they need their help now. Cimon always compared athenians to spartans = athenian annoyed. Cimon lost touch with city"s mood, his rivals ephialtes + pericles turned the assembly against him.
