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Greece Chat Part 2
People, Peloponnesian War and
Philosophy
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
Greek People and Culture
Peloponnesian War
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)

Athens v Sparta
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 returns…but Athens
is too weak to be a great power again

Results of the Peloponnesian War
Athens loses power / influence
2. Democracy suffers in Greece
3. Greece declines as Macedonia
rises to power
1.
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