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Dimitri
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Sparta's launched a surprise on Piraeus that got as close as the famous bay of Salamis, but superior Athenian naval tactics parried it like all other maritime attacks - for now. On land the plague had killed as many citizen-soldiers as a decent hoplite battle would have.
Perikles died in 428, but nobody who wanted his increasingly unpopular strategy entombed with him could formulate a workable alternative.
— Oct 09, 2017 03:31AM
Perikles died in 428, but nobody who wanted his increasingly unpopular strategy entombed with him could formulate a workable alternative.
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Dimitri
is on page 152 of 541
war is a violent teacher. The restraints on violence traditionally ingrained by a common religion eroded into faction-fueled cruelties down to fratricide and murder at the altar. A Cold War logic seeped into some low-level initiatives by cash-starved Athens, such as a Sicilian expedition "by invitation" to deny the Peloponesos the control over the grain supply.
— Jan 12, 2018 06:59AM
Dimitri
is on page 142 of 541
Athens didn't lift a finger to help strategically isolated Platatai; Sparta left the town in the hands of her ally Thebes, who razed it to the ground.Good alliances were becoming more important than bad reputations; Demosthenes steered a more aggressive course. As Thucydides summarized: "War is a harsh teacher". The island of Korkyra saw a faction war, stoked by Spartan agents provocateur, colour the streets red.
— Dec 13, 2017 01:14AM
Dimitri
is on page 120 of 541
In 428 the war was two years old & Perikles' cautious long-term strategy was already draining the resources of the Athenian treasure by talents per day. It couldn't even affort to support an invasion by proxy of Thebes into Macedonia (geographically linked to the Corinthian front). Much less could it react in time to stop an allied colony of her own on Sicily from defecting to Sparta, with all her naval resources.
— Oct 05, 2017 06:58AM
Dimitri
is on page 80 of 541
An honour sabre-ratling between Corinth and a sister city escalates into a war by proxy between Sparta's Peloponesian Bund & the Anthenian Empire. Perikles focused on the disparity between Sparta's joint hoplite strength and his own maritime power to opt a defensive strategy anathema to the offensive martial tradition of Greece, but knew the treasury could only pay for 3 years.
— Sep 22, 2017 12:54PM
