POLS 2490 Lecture 9: Lecture 9
25 Sep 2017
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The greatest action before the peloponnesian wars was against the persians. Never had so many people been captured and/or killed. Peloponnesian war was a turning point for the greeks. The cause of the war is fear, honor, and state-interest. Usually a combination of these three causes war, the peloponnesian wars were caused by all of these. I believe the truest reason for quarrel was the growth of athenian power, which put fear into. States are sometimes compelled to go to war. Spartans feared athens in its restless imperial ambitions. Neither sides wanted war and knew war was fucked up, but both were compelled to go to war. Spartans did it to refrain athenians from getting power. Power, fear and necessity combined to make this war happen. Back then, sparta was under pressure from their allies. From 432 they combined their allies to put their case before the spartan assembly.
