Plague of War - Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece Roberts Jennifer Professor of Classics and History at the City College of New York and the City University of New York Graduate Ce
Plague of War - Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece Roberts Jennifer Professor of Classics and History at the City College of New York and the City University of New York Graduate Ce…
Specifikacia Plague of War - Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece Roberts Jennifer Professor of Classics and History at the City College of New York and the City University of New York Graduate Ce
Plague of War - Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece Roberts Jennifer Professor of Classics and History at the City College of New York and the City University of New York Graduate Ce
In 431 BC, the long simmering rivalry between the city-states of Athens and Sparta erupted into open warfare, and for more than a generation the two were locked in a life-and-death struggle. Whole cities were exterminated, their men killed, their women and children enslaved. The war embroiled the entire Greek world, provoking years of butchery previously unparalleled in ancient Greece.
Sparta's authority was challenged in the so-called Corinthian War (395-387) when Persian gold helped unite Athens with Sparta's former allies. While the war is commonly believed to have ended with the capture of the Athenian navy in 405 and the subsequent starvation of Athens, fighting in Greece would continue for several decades. The war did not truly end until, in 371, Thebes' crack infantry resoundingly defeated Sparta at Leuctra, forever shattering the myth of Spartan military supremacy.Jennifer