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    This document summarizes the rise of Athenian power after the Persian Wars through the Delian League and under the leadership of Pericles. It established Athens as the dominant naval power in Greece and turned the League into an "Athenian Empire" that eventually led to conflict with Sparta and the other poleis in the Peloponnesian War from 431 to 404 BC, weakening Greece and contributing to the decline of the polis system.

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    This document summarizes the rise of Athenian power after the Persian Wars through the Delian League and under the leadership of Pericles. It established Athens as the dominant naval power in Greece and turned the League into an "Athenian Empire" that eventually led to conflict with Sparta and the other poleis in the Peloponnesian War from 431 to 404 BC, weakening Greece and contributing to the decline of the polis system.

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    The Athenian “Empire?

    ”
    (& the Peloponnesian War)
    AFTER THE PERSIAN WARS THE QUESTION IS WHO WILL
    DOMINATE GREEK LIFE? SPARTA OR ATHENS?
    The Delian League
    After the Persian War the
    poleis create Delian League
    478 BC to guard against a
    future Persian threat
    Led by Athens (best navy)
    ◦Massive payments to
    Athens -“Athenian Empire”
    grows… (irony?)
    Athenian Democracy

    Assembly (ecclesia)
    --all Athenian male citizens
    --met about every 10 days (40 times a year)
    all business of city went before it for debate,
    decision
    --met on hillside outside Athens, called the
    Pnyx
    -- Council of 500 (chose by lot) deals with daily
    issues

    --trial by jury of peers, no judges


    --Annual practice of ostracism
    Strengths and weaknesses of
    Athenian democracy
    ●the first participatory government – gave the people
    (the demos) the right to govern themselves
    ●excluded everyone but male citizens
    ●could be very emotional
    ●may not get a good outcome (don’t know what they’re doing)
    ●those with wealth, status still dominated
    ●no individual rights or ability to
    overturn Assembly
    (no right to fair trial or habeas corpus).
    ●Athenian democracy took a lot of time
    Pericles the “first citizen of Athens”
    (460-429 BC)
    --politician and general- How does he get
    so much influence if he only has 1 vote?

    --great patron of the arts- must rebuild


    Athens after Persian War

    --”radicalizes” democracy- turns Delian


    League into an Athenian empire (Will
    eventually cause a civil war…)

    --used ostracism to eliminate


    enemies
    --gave even lower classes access
    to political office with direct democracy
    & payment for civil service (benefit?)
    Phidias (architect) showing the frieze of the Parthenon to Pericles
    Daily Life in Athens
    •--By 5th cen.- population explosion to --Economy largely based on
    300,000 people --Only native born farming (grapes and olives )and
    males could participate in gov. but trade
    adult foreign-born males still expected
    to provide military service and pay -- But, had to import 50-80% of
    taxes for the “privilege” of living in their grain (large population and
    Athens
    not great soil for grain)
    •--Women and slaves had NO public ◦ --Trade extremely impt.- would
    life- had to have a chaperone when in starve without it.
    public.
    The Peloponnesian War 431-404 BC
    Civil war in Greece, Sparta vs.
    Athens
    ◦ Athens strategy? Stay put behind
    “long walls”…. Plague!
    ◦ Athens forced to surrender
    ◦ But conflict continued between
    Sparta and other poleis (Thebes)
    ◦ Led to a weakening of Greece to
    outsiders….
    ◦ Ultimately it contributed to the
    death of the polis-based lifestyle
    altogether…

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