Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Numitor, Occupied Enemy Territory Administration, Tyrrhenus
2 Feb 2015
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The period following the peloponnesian war was a time of transition and crisis. Many of the central poleis were in a precarious position: war had undermined commerce by land and sea, war (and plague at athens) had dramatically reduced the population of citizen males, some cities and been destroyed. Greece was ready to fall (fall to whom: obvious candidate was persian empire. They were not in any position to make a military position that would allow this. The connecting link between the balkans and the greek peninsula. Inconsequential in the 5th century, although there are signs of cultural interests in the. Macedonian court: euripides died visiting king archelaus. Defeat of thebes in 338 bc made macedon the master of the greek world. Alexander (philip"s son) further expands his fathers empire. Expanded macedonian control to the east by subjugating the former persian empire. Became the monarch of most of the known world.
