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11/8/19 H I S T O R Y O F ancient Greece War Between the Greeks MEETING 10 The Undeclared War The Thirty Years Peace The Peloponnesian War 1 THE UNDECLARED WAR 2 Timeline: Peloponnesian Wars 3 1 11/8/19 The Undeclared War

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H I S T O R Y O F

ancient Greece

War Between the Greeks

The Undeclared War The Thirty Years’ Peace The Peloponnesian War MEETING 10

THE UNDECLARED WAR

2 Timeline: Peloponnesian Wars 3

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The Undeclared War – Causes

Naming of the war Conflict between Delian League and Peloponnesian League Undeclared — sporadic battles Trade rivalry

– Two maritime commercial powers — Athens and Corinth

Megara

– switches sides out of fear of Corinth – hands Athenians an important port

Helot rebellion

– Earthquake leads to uprising – Helots relocated to Naupactos

Corinth goes to war with Athens Athens builds the Long Walls

Athens Argos Corinth Sparta Megara Naupactos

4 Long Walls 5 The Undeclared War 6

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The Thirty Years’ Peace

Neither side interferes with allies of the other Neutrals free to join either side Arbitration of disagreements No one can switch sides Sparta and Athens can use force within their alliances

7 Athenian expansion – Magna Graecia

Rhegium Egesta Leontini Etruscans SYRACUSE Thurii

8 Athenian expansion – Black Sea 9

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Athenian expansion - Thrace 10 Breakdown of the Peace

Epidamnus and Corcyra Potidaean Ultimatum Megaran Decrees

Athens Argos Corinth Sparta Epidamnus Corcyra Potidaea Megara

11 12

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13 The Peloponnesian Wars 14 Timeline: Peloponnesian Wars 15

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Tension becomes war: Thukydides

“The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Lacedaemon, made war inevitable” “ ‘You hold your empire like a tyranny now. Taking it is thought to have been criminal; letting it go would be extremely dangerous’ ”

16 Thirty Years’ Peace

Neither side interferes with allies of the other Neutrals free to join either side Arbitration of disagreements No one can switch sides Sparta and Athens can use force within their alliances

17 Athenian Expansion 18

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Epidamnus and Corcyra 19 Potidaean Ultimatum

Potidaea

20 Megaran Decrees 21

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Corinth appeals to Sparta 22 23 Strengths and weaknesses

Athens and allies

Wealth
Undisputed advantage at sea

§ Number and quality of ships § Training

Sparta and allies

Undisputed advantage in infantry

§ Number and quality of troops § Training

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Perikles’s strategy 25

Reading

Thucydides / Perikles’s Funeral Oration

Reading

Thucydides / The Plague at Athens

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Kleon: Mytilene and Pylos 28 Brasidas 29

Reading

Thucydides / Civil War in Corcyra

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Peace of Nikias

Athenians give up captured bases Sparta gives up Athenian ex-allies Megara and Corinth reject treaty

31 Melos 32

Reading

Thucydides / The Melian Dialog

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Alkibiades 34 The Sicilian Expedition 35 Decelea 36

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Battle of Aegospotami 37 Post-war Athens 38 Legacies 39

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Fourth Century Crisis 40 41