CLASSICS 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hoplite, Gylippus, Oligarchy
13 May 2016
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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. 430-425: spartans stalled, athenian victories: 429: naupactus, 428/7: mytilene, 425: pylos. The polis is in danger, and age without rules. Thucydides: the greatest war, the greatest calamities. Pylos for amphipolis: peace of nicias of 421. Alcibiades and athens" rash sicilian expedition: 415-413. Athenians defeated by syracusans and peloponnesians under gylippus. Restoration of democracy (410) and athenian resiliency.
