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CC 301 1st Edition Lecture 11 Outline of Last Lecture I. Discussion of how Athenian government differs from Spartan; in depth description of Solon and the Council of 400, changes in Athenian leadership and the Council of 500. Outline of Current Lecture II. DatesIII. End of the PersiansIV. Differences between Spartans and AtheniansV. Internal Athenian PoliticsVI. Athens as a Naval PowerVII. Benefits to the PeopleVIII. CitizenshipCurrent LectureDates479 – Battle of Platea471 – Ostracism of Themistocles465 – Revolt of Thasos464 – Earthquake in Sparta462 – Death of Cimon/Argive Alliance457 – Battle of Tanagra + Denophyta454 – Delion Treasury moved to Athens451 – Pericles Citizenship Law446 – 30 Years Peace431-421 Archidamian War421 – 415 Peace of Nicias415 – 413 Sicilian Expedition413 – 404 Decelean WarEnd of the Persians Greeks retreated to a higher position, but a Spartan commander refused to retreat. The othergreek troops came to the defense of this Spartan contingent when he was being attacked.Ultimately, the Greeks prevailed. Even though the Spartans had vast more majority of a numberthat didn’t want to retreat the exceptional weaponry helped tide the Greeks over. These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Thebes: allied themselves with Persia, was very severely punished and its leaders were either putto death or exiled.The rest of the Persians retreated; and the Greeks were always able to prevail on the seas. Greekspursued the Persians. The Athenians rallied the Ionians to rebel from the Persians; if they wereweak on the sea then there would be nothing to fear from them.At Mecolony there is a climactic battle; the Persians beach their ships inside a naval artificialharbor made of wood; 60,000 land troops on the coast. But, the Ionian contingents were ofdubious loyalty. Athenians and other Greek forces attacked the encampment on both sides. Thisdestroyed the remainder of Persia; the Ionian islands and coastal cities no longer had anything tofear from the Persians as long as the Athenians were down at sea. Caught the cables of the bridgethat Xerxes had built at Hellespont and severed them.Differences between the Spartans and AtheniansThe Spartans were in favor of taking all of the Ionians that lived on the coastal cities and justsettling them on the Greek mainland in Thecele or Biosia; parts that had collaborated with thePersians. This idea was to make it a more secure place for the Ionians than leaving them on thecoast of Asia where they could still be attacked. Athenians wanted the Ionians to stay in thecoastal cities; this threat based on the fact that Sparta was always a land power, whereas Athensstrength was always in their navy. The Ionians themselves preferred to stay where they were. Spartan general that went up to Hellespont was named Calsanius who took it upon himself tonegotiate with Persians in his own personal interest; became so friendly to the Persians that hebegan to dress like them and took bribes. Although he was a very good general on the battlefield,he turned out to be corrupt. The Spartans had the idea that any time a general is getting too faraway from Sparta, you lose control of him. Spartans were very conservative and cautious leadingthem to be distrustful of overseas negotiations. The Athenians felt a certain kinship with theIonians, their dialect of Greek was much closer to the Ionians versus the Doric dialect of theSpartans. Within the Athenian mythology, the Ionian city states and islands used to be a part ofAthens (historically not the case). Certain paternalistic interest in helping the Ionians. Athensadventurousness in pursuing the Persians went so far that they tried to liberate the island ofCyprus. Even sent a force to Egypt. It’s as if the Spartans cautiousness is complimented anAthenian risk taking and adventurousness in pursuing things. (Will later turn out to be an issue inthe Peloponnesian war).Athenians felt that since they were sacrificing so much to come to the rescue and defend theseIonian islands that the Ionians should commit to an alliance and compensate for the expenses ofmanning the ships that they were sending to liberate or protect them. Many of these Ionian citieswere very wealthy, trading with Asian and other distant parts of the Persian empire. Delian league – meeting point on island of Delius in Aegean sea465 – Thasos decided they didn’t want to be a part of this alliance; it was important because itcontrolled some of the mainland of Thrace with valuable silver. After all it is no sort of alliance ifyou’re forced into it. Part of it was that the Athenians wanted to make an example of this island.The next step that showed that this alliance was becoming an Athenian empire was moving thetreasury from Delius to Athens itself. The symbolism of the revenue now coming directly intoAthens and financing build projects made it even clearer to everyone that this was not somemutual treaty organization like NATO. The kind of protection that Athens was offering in returnfor this was sort of like a mafia like protection from themselves. Internal Athenian PoliticsThere were two primary leaders in the decade or so immediately following the defeat of thePersians. There was Themistocles (battle of Salamis) and then there was Cimon. Both of thesemen favored building up the navy and thought that naval supremacy was the key to Athensinfluence and prosperity. The Athenians could not equal Spartans in terms of infantry becausethey could not adopt the same strip of education and lifestyle that the Spartan citizens were underbut they could be superior in ship building. Whether Athens should be continued to ally itselfwith Sparta (Cimon [more upper class and aristocratic family and sympathetic to conservativeand oligarchic] supported, Themistocles remembered Spartans wanting to abandon the Atheniansat Salamis); The degree of democratic development within the city of Athens was another areawhere the two leaders disagreed (Cimon did not necessarily want the common citizen to have thesame degree of power that Themistocles wanted to give them). If you’re going to have a largenavy, that depends on man power that is drawn from the lower classes. Cavalry: horse mounted soldiers were from the wealthiest classes because you needed to ownyour own horse. Hoplites: heavy armed


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