HISTORY 1M03 Lecture : History of Greece and Rome-Feb. 2 "The Fall of Athens & Sparta"
13 Mar 2012
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406: arginusae: athenians won, spartans offers peace on the condition of acceptin status quo; this meant. But 405: aegospotami &404: athenian surrender: aegospotami: lysander captures 170 athenian ships; athens is doomed; her allies surrender to the spartans, 404: after unsuccessful negotiations surrender. Greece after the peloponnesian war: 4th century not able to return to her former state: sparta was eventually reduced to a minimal power, population loss, economic equality, inequality. Athens reduced to half through disease and conflict. Damage to farms left the countryside left economic inequality; the gap between the rich and the poor grew: resulting in. : the erosion of the middle, social conflict, stasis. Middle class disappeared into the rich and very poor: decline of citizen-hoplites: mercenaries, light-armed troops. Hoplite soldiers were forced to rely on mercenary work for other city states, who needed manpower. Those who needed manpower sought the poor men for light armed troops to fight alongside the mercenaries.
