Peloponnesian War

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>9gag

Really wish Elisha Cuthbert's body of work was more fleshed out

aside from the sicilian expedition athens did LITERALLY nothing wrong

>>2512806
The war showed that democracy is a meme and that Athenians are truly a bunch of boy fucking faggots

>>2515302
lysander was only influential cause he was literally the prince's boyfriend

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read this

>>2515300
>athens did LITERALLY nothing wrong
Two genocides including?

>>2515300
What about the whole killing Pericles son?

Gayreeks killing eachother.

>>2512830
most of us came from there dude. its golden age is over thouogh

>>2512806

What exactly is your interest in it? Greek history? Political science? Military history in general? It's a very complicated period and there's a lot to go over, so some focus would he heplful as to what exactly you're interested in.

>>2517698
>most of us came from there dude.

fucking newfags.

>>2517698
Overbait

>>2517698
Kys

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Athens was a democracy and the strongest of the city states, while at the same time they had their blood up from their glorious victory over the Persians. They planned to subject all of the Greeks to their will and build a great Empire with which to conquer everything they could.

The war created a civil war in many Greek states, as the Oligarchical Traditionalists backed by Sparta and the Democrats backed by Athens led coups and counter-coups in many of the Greek city states, this civil war was intensely bitter and ravaged the Hellenic world for decades. The fighting was described by Thucydides as:

> Death thus raged in every shape; and, as usually happens at such times, there was no length to which violence did not go; sons were killed by their fathers, and suppliants dragged from the altar or slain upon it; while some were even walled up in the temple of Dionysus and died there.