Most of the people from that city would have the same religious thoughts or ideas and most of them worshiped the same gods.īeing in one city-state with another person formed a bond with them and the people would work well together, and this was how wars were won. The people thought of themselves as individual people, but they also were one with the city that they lived in. He would say that he lived in Athens or that he was from Sparta. If you would ask an Ancient Greek where he was from, he would say that he was from one of the cities within Greece. However, in reality, it was actually Persia who had won the war.Spartans fighting against Persian Location However, more difficult was the fact that Athens now had to recognize and accept Sparta as the leader of Greece. Instead Athens was forced to destroy its main defenses, abolish the Delian League and its fleet was handed over to the Spartans. It was General Lysander who was against this saying he could not accept the destruction of Athens as it was the city that had saved all of Greece from the Perisans in the wars many years before. With trade and supply routes to Athens stopped and the taking over of Attica, Athens was forced into starvation.
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General Lysander, who was a very important figure for Sparta in this battle, managed to take over control of the black sea. However, during the battle of Aegospotami in 405 B.C., the Spartans destroyed the fleet of Athens. The pendulum of the war was swinging from side to side, and for a short while, was swinging heavily in favour of Athens. Sparta’s lack of naval warfare was a factor in this, as was the determination of Athens to keep fighting at all costs. Years passed and the war was still raging. No matter who was the victor between Sparta and Athens, after exhausting themselves in this long drawn out war and using all of their supplies and resources, Persia would be in a good position to take total control over Greece. With Persia promising more and more as time went by, it was prolonging the war. Persia, on the other hand, had everything to gain from the war. It really had no choice to take the help Persia was offering, even though it was against their reasons for originally starting this war. Without the help of Persia Sparta’s attempts at winning this new was with Athens would have been limited. Each promising each other things though when time came to deliver on the promises, excuses and compromises were made. The relationship between Sparta and Persia was not always a very good one. However, the promise of returning the Ionian cities in Asia Minor was not in line with their original intentions.
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What is important to understand here is that originally Sparta declared war on Athens as it wanted to free all Greeks from the stranglehold of Athens. In return for this Sparta had to return the Ionian cities in Asia Minor back to Persia. Even though this uprising was short-lived it provided Persia with a justification of helping Sparta.ĭarius II of Persia offered finance to Sparta for the construction of the Spartan fleet. This uprising was to rebel against the Persian king. What triggered Persia’s involvement was when Athens, during the first Peloponesse war, supported an uprising in the western region of Anatolia. Having previously refused in get involved in the first Peloponesse war as there was no real reason to offer support for Sparta, Persia did become a component a little later on. It wasn’t long before Persia entered into the picture.
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With the desertion to the enemy of thousands of slaves and a severe shortage of food supplies getting through, Athens began to feel the full force of what the Spartans were doing. The silver-mines in Lavrio also became detached from Athens.
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This resulted in Athens facing extreme shortages of grain and crops, as it had just lost it supplies from Sicily in the ill-fated expedition. A base was formed there and was used by the Spartans for pestering the farmers of the region. Sparta invaded Attica, and occupied the northern region of Decelea. See page for author, via Wikimedia Commons
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** The image above shows the plague of Athens Having sustained heavy losses of ships and troops, as well as money financing the expedition, Athens was in no fit state to prepare for what would follow. After the disastrous expedition in Sicily the confidence of Athens had been severely traumatized.