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Peloponnesian War

Peloponnesian War. 431BCE-425BCE. The Plague. According to Thucydides the plague started in Ethiopia and spread through Egypt and North Africa and then to Athens. Killed 1/3 of the Athenian people. “As it devoured the flower of their manhood and their strength”. Riots.

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Peloponnesian War

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  1. Peloponnesian War 431BCE-425BCE

  2. The Plague • According to Thucydides the plague started in Ethiopia and spread through Egypt and North Africa and then to Athens. • Killed 1/3 of the Athenian people. • “As it devoured the flower of their manhood and their strength”.

  3. Riots • Became indifferent to laws and religion. • The people lost faith in Pericles and deposed him. • Investigated and fined, but soon returned to power.

  4. Death of Pericles • Pericles dies of the plague. • Cleon (leather merchant), Lysicles (sheep dealer) and Hyerboulus (lamp maker) all three wanted an aggressive war. • Wealthy classes: • Supported Nicas, a conservative land owner and slave dealer. • NO CONTINUITY!!!

  5. Cleon • Demagogue. • Involvement in -The Mytilenian Debate -the speech of the Spartan envoys during the Pylos campaign -the debate on Pylos -the military campaign Deeply disliked by Thucydides

  6. The Lesbian Uprising • Independent ally of Athens. Provided ships. • Mytilene had intended to annex Lesbos, and asked Sparta for help. • Eventually Athens besieged the city. • Envoys Mytilene convinced the P: to help the Lesbians.

  7. Appeal to Sparta • “It is not in Attica, as some people think, that the war will be won or lost, but in the countries from which Attica gains her strength...you will be in a much better position for breaking the power of Athens by detaching her allies from her...” Thuycidides

  8. Mytilenian Debate • ‘the entire male population of Mytilene and to make slaves of the woman and children’.

  9. Bibliography

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