Greece After the Peloponnesian War

Interstate relations Why didn’t Athens recover?

Lecture Outline

• Final Years of the War

• Terms of Peace• What happened

next?• Lysander• Lysander as

harmost

• The Persian World• Sparta and

Thebes• Corinthian War• Sparta’s Troubles• The Common

Peace

The Final Years of the War

• 405 Athenian fleet is attacked by Spartans and Corinthians

• Athenians lose 180 ships, Spartans retain 200

• Athenian treasury is empty• 404 Spartan army invades Attica• Athens surrenders

The Terms of Peace

• Walls of the Piraeus

• 12 ships

• Athens is now a junior ally of Sparta

• Thirty tyrants now rule

What happened next?

• 30 years of supremacy

• 3000 sailors, almost 200 ships

• Fate of Athens?

• Price of Persian aid?

Lysander

• Planned strategy of battle of 405Ambush at Aegospotami

• Can he serve the state’s best interests?

• What role can he play in Sparta?

Lysander as harmost

• Military office – sent to Athens as overseer

• By 403 he is relieved of his duties by King Pausanias, one of the Spartan kings

• King Agis, the other Spartan king, has other problems . . . But he is pro-Lysander

The Persian World401 – request sent to Sparta to ask for

aid to collect mercenary troops by Cyrus

400 – Tissaphernes asks for Greek citiesGreeks in Asia Minor plea with Sparta

for helpSparta prefers diplomacy394 – Conon (Persian General) defeats

Sparta

Sparta & Thebes

• Thebes wants Sparta to destroy Athens

• Sparta has been a bit greedy with the spoils of war

• Thebans take in exiled Athenians

Corinthian War 395-387

• Sparta’s fault

• Corinth + Athens, Argos + Boeotia

• Persian interests

• Divide and conquer

Sparta is plagued by troubles

• Internal fighting

• War is on two fronts

• Cannot break up the coalition against them

Common Peace = koine eirene

• Every independent state would have autonomy and freedom

• This idea never really catches on

• Major city-states have too much rivalry for this to be popular