Misha Glenny
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first heard May 2026
last heard 6d ago
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I mean, it seemed a fairly tough arrangement as far as the Allies were concerned, and we'll come to the Allies later, but can you firstly give us a sense of scale here?
How many city-states were there in the Delian League, and how much territory did it actually cover?
I think there's going to be a lot of this.
But although Sparta and Athens had cooperated in resisting the Persian invasion, Sparta was not part of the Delian League, is that right?
Paul, we've had a lot of we don't knows so far and quite a few mentions of Thucydides.
So can you tell us about what exactly are the written sources about the Delian League?
And he's justifying the Athenian imperial project.
So Herodotus is one source, a justification, as it were, leading up to the Delian League.
The other big source is Thucydides.
What about Thucydides?
Polly, let's go to the start of the League in 478 and its first couple of decades, up until about the 450s.
What's it doing initially?
Supporting the rebellion?
Do you mean Greek states like Sparta or do you mean Greek states who are actually theoretically allies of theirs in the Athenian League?
So that brings me on to the allies in the alliance.
We've talked a lot about Athens, Athenian strategy and aims.
Leah, what do we know about their allies up to, I believe, about 300 of them at its greatest extent?
Do we know what they're thinking about all of this?
Well, presumably for some of these allies, there must have been advantages being in this alliance as well, if only for protection.
Paul, Polly indicated that after the end of the Egyptian campaign, the confrontation with Persia appeared to come to an end.
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