CLA230H1 Lecture Notes - Peloponnesian War, Main Source, Helots
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The pentakonaetia (479-432 bc) (right before the peloponnesian wars, where athens acquires an empire) Thucydides (main source for this, was alive at the time. ((b. Some dates are inaccurate, refers to other authors but we don"t have those authors texts (didn"t survive) evidence is not so great so we cant really be sure about whats happening. he seems to be correcting other authors. How quickly after battles of mycale and ___ the two sides go their own way. Same summer after persian wars the athenians and spartans quickly go off and look after their own interests. Sparta didn"t want athens to build fortifications, they were surprised by the new strength of ahenian navy. Spartans want to go back to the way things were before the wars, when athens was second fiddle to the spartans. in this way the persian wars was athens coming out.
