CLA230H1 Lecture 13: The Delian League and the Athenian Empire

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27 Feb 2019
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Transformation of the delian league into the athenian arche, translated as empire. Golden age of athens, the school of hellas . Idea that the greek display of martial virtue, as displayed in the wars is the inherent virtue of greeks in contrast to non-greek: all subjects can be freed when the power of persia falls and escape slavery (aeschylus) Pentakontaetia 479-432bc [a fifty-year period, from end of wars to peloponnesian war] No coherent historical narrative of the period hero"s ends too early at 479, but does offer anecdotes from the 50-year period; thucydides is mostly the on the pelop wars; Aristotle"s constitution is the main source for political development in the period; tendency to inscribe publicly once the democracy emerges decrees, reform, laws, accounts, tributes paid. Largest fleet in the eastern med even after the wars. Revenues and prosperity reduced after mardonius destroyed the city. Hoplites forces sparta controlled sparta the obvious leader of any greek alliance.

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