People, Peloponnesian War and Philosophy

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Greece Chat Part 2

• People, Peloponnesian War and Philosophy

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Age of Pericles

• Skilled, wise, admired politician for 32 years
  Golden Age of Athens
• Increased Athenian Democracy
• Athenian Empire
• Greek Art and Architecture
• Parthenon
• Phidias
• Classical Art

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Greek People and Culture
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Peloponnesian War
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Peloponnesian War

• Delian League (Athens) v Peloponnesian League
  (Sparta) formed in Greece after the Persian
  Wars
• Conflict over Delian control
• 431 BC Sparta attacks Attica
• Sparta attacks the overcrowded Athens Sparta
  surrounds Athens - the rock fortress
• Plague and Pericles dies
• Peace of Nicias (50 year truce)

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Athens v Sparta
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Peloponnesian War

• Athenian army/navy destroyed in Sicily
• Athenian power based on navy
• Athens attacked by Sparta who was joined by
  Persia!
• Sparta will not bargain for peace so Athens
  surrenders in 404 BC
• Eventually democracy returnsbut Athens is too
  weak to be a great power again

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Results of the Peloponnesian War

1. Athens loses power / influence
2. Democracy suffers in Greece
3. Greece declines as Macedonia rises to power