HISTORY 1M03 Lecture : History 1M03 feb 3.docx
7 Apr 2014
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The rules and rituals of hoplite warfare reflected the interests of the citizen-farmer-soldier. But athens was not a hoplite republic but an imperial, naval democracy. A new, innovative kind of polis innovated a new kind of warfare. 431 bce: spartans with peloponnesian allies marched into attica, no longer willing to tolerate. By common convention among the greeks, rather than fight a drawn out war, they limited conflict to one or two set piece battles. Greek warfare up to this time was warfare without strategy, there was only tactics. The spartans now didn"t get the war they expected because athens was no longer a traditional polis, no longer a state of citizen-farmer-soldiers, no longer tied to traditional hoplite warfare, it was a democratic imperial naval power. The plague of 430 bce: still stuck to their plan, 20% was affected, 6yrs of their innovated battle was in their favor. 430-425: spartans stalled, athenian victories: 429: naupactus, 428/7: mytilene, 425: pylos.
