Misha Glenny
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21 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 6d ago
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So around 450 BCE, we're talking about now, there appears to have been one or two fundamental shifts in the League.
Can you describe what those are?
I think we might have to change the title of this episode, The Unknown Delian Lee.
Pericles had preceded this by, I believe, shifting the treasury from Delos to Athens, which is a centralizing move, if ever I've heard.
Polly, talking about Samos now, you mentioned before that some of the allies had had enough at various points.
And it seems to me the Delian League was studied with very serious uprisings.
Can you tell us about those communities which were resisting the Athenians?
And what do the Athenians do when faced with such rebellions?
Leah, we've heard about the paucity of written sources.
Can you tell us a little bit about numismatic sources, what the coins tell us from the period?
Paul, you mentioned Pericles and the building of the Acropolis, the Parthenon.
He went on a statue and temple building spree.
Was this all around Athens or did they also build temples and statutes to the gods around the entire league?
Because it was a democracy.
Polly, Leah's said that she considers it legitimate to call the Delian League an empire from the very beginning and it seems to me that this is the big issue about the Delian League.
Is it an empire or not?
Do you agree with her that that's when it starts or is there a moment later on where it shifts to an imperial structure?
Leah, we come now to my favourite question in this episode.
Can you tell us about Cloud Cuckoo Land and why it's relevant to the Delian League?
Paul, clearly when Aristophanes is writing The Birds, that the Delian League is beginning to collapse if it hasn't already done so.
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