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Pentekontaetia : 479/8-432/1 BCE

Pentekontaetia : 479/8-432/1 BCE. Remnants of the Themistoclean wall, Kerameikos , Athens: 479-478 BCE. The wars between the wars from Greeks vs. Persians to Greeks vs. Greeks: Part 1: 479/8-458/7 BCE. Sparta and the Peloponnesian (or “Hellenic” League). Corinthian Gulf. Delphi.

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Pentekontaetia : 479/8-432/1 BCE

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  1. Pentekontaetia: 479/8-432/1 BCE Remnants of the Themistoclean wall, Kerameikos, Athens: 479-478 BCE The wars between the wars from Greeks vs. Persians to Greeks vs. Greeks: Part 1: 479/8-458/7 BCE

  2. Sparta and the Peloponnesian (or “Hellenic” League) Corinthian Gulf Delphi Isthmus ACHAEA Athens Corinth ELIS ATTICA Olympia ARGOLID ARCADIA Argos Saronic Gulf PELOPONNESOS LACONIA Aegean Sea MESSENIA Sparta

  3. Kleisthenes’ reforms: Representative democracy Attica political organization: the distribution of demes and bouleutai

  4. Political systems: democracy in Athens Western side of the Athenian agora, looking north Bema (speaker’s platform) at the Pnyx, meeting place of the ekklesia (citizens’ assembly) Model of the statue group of the 10 eponymous heroeslocated on the western side of the Athenian agora

  5. Heroic past: Plain of MarathonAthens & Plataea vs. Persians, 490 BCE Marathon Bay Persian cavalry Persian fleet Persian camp Greek camp at sanctuary of Herakles Soros

  6. Warfare: trireme and hoplites

  7. “Xerxes’ army drank the river Lisus dry” (Hdt. 7.107) Pontoon bridge X Cape Artemisium Thermopylae X Xerxes’ fleet Delphi Xerxes’ army Thebes “Most of the Greeks were unwilling to fight … and ready to accept Persian dominion” (Hdt. 7.138; see 7.132 (incl. Thebes), 149 (Argos), 163 (~Syracuse) for medizers) Athens Sparta

  8. Heroic Past: Battle of Salamis, 480 BCE Greeks vs. Persians Mt. Aigaleos (Xerxes) Salamis Psyttaleia Phaleron

  9. Heroic Past: Unified Greece vs. Persians “Again, there is the Greek nation – the community of blood and language, temples and ritual, and our common customs; if Athens were to betray all this, it would not be well done …. So long as a single Athenian remains alive we will make no peace with Xerxes” (Hdt. 8.144) • τὸ Ἑλληνικὸν ἐὸν ὅμαιμόν τε καὶ ὁμόγλωσσον καὶ θεῶν ἱδρύματά τε κοινὰ καὶ θυσίαι ἤθεά τε ὁμότροπα ... • to Hellênikon eon: “the Greek nation” (lit. “being Greek”)

  10. Thucydides begins his narrative of the Pentakontaetia(“50-year history”) with 479/8 BCE: Cyprus, Byzantion Sestos

  11. 476/5-474 BCE: Eion-on-Strymon, Scyros, Carystus: why? Strymon River Eion Carystus

  12. 476/5-474: Eion-on-Strymon, Scyrus, Carystus: securing the grain route/access to Thrace Strymon River Timber, silver and gold Eion Carystus

  13. 468/7-467/6: EurymedonRiver Eurymedon River

  14. N Athenian Acropolis just prior to Xerxes’ sack of the city, 480 BCE Acropolis North Wall, columns in the wall of Kimon,ca. 465 BCE

  15. 465/4: EnneaHodoi (Amphipolis), Thrace THRACE Strymon River Eion Carystus

  16. 465/4: Mt. Ithome, Messenia, Argos, Naupactos THESSALY Naupactus Mt. Ithome

  17. 462/1-460/59: Megara, Pegae, Nisaea, Corinth, Athens Pegae Nisaea

  18. 459/8: Cyprus, Memphis Eurymedon River  LIBYA  EGYPT Pharos Memphis

  19. DORIS OPUNTIAN LOCRIS PHOCIS PHOCIS Delphi Tanagra BOEOTIA Oenophyta Thebes Corinthian Gulf Crissaean Gulf Pegae Sicyon Megara Athens Isthmus Corinth 459/8: Haliae, Corinth, Epidauros, Aegina, Megara Cecryphalia Aegina Epidauros Saronic Gulf Haliae Sparta

  20. 459/8 (or as early as 461/0): Long Walls, Athens

  21. DORIS OPUNTIAN LOCRIS PHOCIS PHOCIS Delphi Tanagra BOEOTIA Oenophyta Thebes Corinthian Gulf Crissaean Gulf Pegae Sicyon Megara Athens Isthmus Corinth 459/8-458/7: Battles of Tanagra and Oenophyta Aegina Epidauros Saronic Gulf Sparta

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