Alastair Blanshard

They could see the writing on the wall in the final stages of the Peloponnesian War. And so there were Athenian exiles up in Macedonia, for example. Euripides is up in Macedonia. You know, a huge number of exiles in Cyprus, in the court of Evagoras. So there are Athenians all over the place. And, you know, so they try and mobilize opposition and the 30 send out assassins.

They could see the writing on the wall in the final stages of the Peloponnesian War. And so there were Athenian exiles up in Macedonia, for example. Euripides is up in Macedonia. You know, a huge number of exiles in Cyprus, in the court of Evagoras. So there are Athenians all over the place. And, you know, so they try and mobilize opposition and the 30 send out assassins.

They could see the writing on the wall in the final stages of the Peloponnesian War. And so there were Athenian exiles up in Macedonia, for example. Euripides is up in Macedonia. You know, a huge number of exiles in Cyprus, in the court of Evagoras. So there are Athenians all over the place. And, you know, so they try and mobilize opposition and the 30 send out assassins.

Yeah. They commissioned people to go to Salamis. Most famously, they asked Socrates to be part of one of these squads to go and retrieve a person called Leon of Salamis and to bring him for trial. Socrates refuses to have any part in the regime of the 30, even though a number of his students are, in fact, leading members of the 30. So it's a really brutal day.

Yeah. They commissioned people to go to Salamis. Most famously, they asked Socrates to be part of one of these squads to go and retrieve a person called Leon of Salamis and to bring him for trial. Socrates refuses to have any part in the regime of the 30, even though a number of his students are, in fact, leading members of the 30. So it's a really brutal day.

Yeah. They commissioned people to go to Salamis. Most famously, they asked Socrates to be part of one of these squads to go and retrieve a person called Leon of Salamis and to bring him for trial. Socrates refuses to have any part in the regime of the 30, even though a number of his students are, in fact, leading members of the 30. So it's a really brutal day.

They harass the wealthy Metics, the wealthy foreigners who are living in Athens, seizing property from them, violating their houses. It's just a terrible, dark, dark period. Now, fortunately, it's a relatively short kind of period because a remnant of the Athenian democratic forces arrives in the Piraeus. They buy a man called Thrasybulus. and he manages to essentially overthrow the Thirty.

They harass the wealthy Metics, the wealthy foreigners who are living in Athens, seizing property from them, violating their houses. It's just a terrible, dark, dark period. Now, fortunately, it's a relatively short kind of period because a remnant of the Athenian democratic forces arrives in the Piraeus. They buy a man called Thrasybulus. and he manages to essentially overthrow the Thirty.

They harass the wealthy Metics, the wealthy foreigners who are living in Athens, seizing property from them, violating their houses. It's just a terrible, dark, dark period. Now, fortunately, it's a relatively short kind of period because a remnant of the Athenian democratic forces arrives in the Piraeus. They buy a man called Thrasybulus. and he manages to essentially overthrow the Thirty.

You might think, well, why don't the Spartans stand up to the Thrasybulus and quash this kind of pro-democratic anti-Thirty movement? It's really because Lysander's star has fallen at this point, and the fact that someone's come along and starting to undo Lysander's Lysander's organisation.

You might think, well, why don't the Spartans stand up to the Thrasybulus and quash this kind of pro-democratic anti-Thirty movement? It's really because Lysander's star has fallen at this point, and the fact that someone's come along and starting to undo Lysander's Lysander's organisation.

You might think, well, why don't the Spartans stand up to the Thrasybulus and quash this kind of pro-democratic anti-Thirty movement? It's really because Lysander's star has fallen at this point, and the fact that someone's come along and starting to undo Lysander's Lysander's organisation.

I think the Spartans are quite keen on that and they also quite like to stick it to Lysander I think at this point.

I think the Spartans are quite keen on that and they also quite like to stick it to Lysander I think at this point.

I think the Spartans are quite keen on that and they also quite like to stick it to Lysander I think at this point.

Yes, it's extraordinary how quickly they bounce back, actually.

Yes, it's extraordinary how quickly they bounce back, actually.

Yes, it's extraordinary how quickly they bounce back, actually.

Yes, yes, yeah. I mean, as fools go, it's how you want to do your fool, I think, really. I mean, within a couple of decades, actually, Athens will be back. And that's because Sparta gets too ambitious and itself falls foul of its own ambitions. It gets involved in a kind of coup in Persia Cyrus, the son of Darius, decides to become a usurper.

Yes, yes, yeah. I mean, as fools go, it's how you want to do your fool, I think, really. I mean, within a couple of decades, actually, Athens will be back. And that's because Sparta gets too ambitious and itself falls foul of its own ambitions. It gets involved in a kind of coup in Persia Cyrus, the son of Darius, decides to become a usurper.