Transcript Greece After the Peloponnesian War

Greece After the Peloponnesian
War
Interstate relations
Why didn’t Athens recover?
Lecture Outline
• Final Years of the
War
• Terms of Peace
• What happened
next?
• Lysander
• Lysander as harmost
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The Persian World
Sparta and Thebes
Corinthian War
Sparta’s Troubles
The Common Peace
The Final Years of the War
• 405 Athenian fleet is attacked by
Spartans and Corinthians
• Athenians lose 180 ships, Spartans
retain 200
• Athenian treasury is empty
• 404 Spartan army invades Attica
• Athens surrenders
The Terms of Peace
• Walls of the Piraeus
• 12 ships
• Athens is now a junior ally of Sparta
• Thirty tyrants now rule
What happened next?
• 30 years of supremacy
• 3000 sailors, almost 200 ships
• Fate of Athens?
• Price of Persian aid?
Lysander
• Planned strategy of battle of 405
Ambush at Aegospotami
• Can he serve the state’s best interests?
• What role can he play in Sparta?
Lysander as harmost
• Military office – sent to Athens as
overseer
• By 403 he is relieved of his duties by
King Pausanias, one of the Spartan
kings
• King Agis, the other Spartan king, has
other problems . . . But he is proLysander
The Persian World
401 – request sent to Sparta to ask for
aid to collect mercenary troops by Cyrus
400 – Tissaphernes asks for Greek cities
Greeks in Asia Minor plea with Sparta for
help
Sparta prefers diplomacy
394 – Conon (Persian General) defeats
Sparta
Sparta & Thebes
• Thebes wants Sparta to destroy Athens
• Sparta has been a bit greedy with the
spoils of war
• Thebans take in exiled Athenians
Corinthian War 395-387
• Sparta’s fault
• Corinth + Athens, Argos + Boeotia
• Persian interests
• Divide and conquer
Sparta is plagued by troubles
• Internal fighting
• War is on two fronts
• Cannot break up the coalition against
them
Common Peace = koine eirene
• Every independent state would have
autonomy and freedom
• This idea never really catches on
• Major city-states have too much rivalry
for this to be popular