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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 – 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 Naupactos Megara – Earthquake leads to uprising Athens Corinth – Helots relocated to Naupactos Argos � Corinth goes to war with Athens Sparta � Athens builds the Long Walls 4 Long Walls 5 The Undeclared War 6 2

11/8/19 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 Etruscans Thurii Rhegium Egesta Leontini SYRACUSE 8 Athenian expansion – Black Sea 9 3

11/8/19 Athenian expansion - Thrace 10 Breakdown of the Peace � Epidamnus and Corcyra � Potidaean Ultimatum Epidamnus � Megaran Decrees Potidaea Corcyra Megara Athens Corinth Argos Sparta 11 12 4

11/8/19 WAR BETWEEN THE GREEKS 13 The Peloponnesian Wars 14 Timeline: Peloponnesian Wars 15 5

11/8/19 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 6

11/8/19 Epidamnus and Corcyra 19 Potidaean Ultimatum Potidaea 20 Megaran Decrees 21 7

11/8/19 Corinth appeals to Sparta 22 23 Strengths and weaknesses Athens and allies Sparta and allies • Wealth • Undisputed advantage in infantry § Number and quality of troops • Undisputed advantage at sea § Training § Number and quality of ships § Training 24 8

11/8/19 Perikles’s strategy 25 Reading Thucydides / Perikles’s Funeral Oration 26 Reading Thucydides / The Plague at Athens 27 9

11/8/19 Kleon: Mytilene and Pylos 28 Brasidas 29 Reading Thucydides / Civil War in Corcyra 30 10

11/8/19 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 33 11

11/8/19 Alkibiades 34 The Sicilian Expedition 35 Decelea 36 12

11/8/19 Battle of Aegospotami 37 Post-war Athens 38 Legacies 39 13

11/8/19 Fourth Century Crisis 40 41 14