Misha Glenny

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1,410 appearances 21 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 6d ago

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In Our Time · The Delian League · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

How does it all end?

Polly, how was the Delian League seen by the classical world in the centuries after its demise?

So I think... That's a really important document, surely.

OK, Leah, I'm going to come to you as the first in a quickfire round at the end.

And that is, I want to know your opinion as how we should look at the Delian League now.

Was this a sinister, coercive hegemony or was power more balanced?

You first, then Paul and then Polly.

My thanks to Leah Lazar, Polly Lowe and Paul Cartlidge.

Next week, Marie Antoinette's official portraitist who shocks society by painting smiles with open mouths.

Scandalous.

We'll be discussing the artist Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun.

Until then, thank you for listening.

OK, and now we go on to the podcast thing.

So, first of all, I'm still intrigued about Sparta and what Sparta's calculations are, having collaborated with Athens.

Are they simply a more self-contained operation?

And that presumably explains why the Delian League existed, because of the fact that they suddenly had the emergence of this extraordinary fleet.

Am I right in thinking from the conversation that basically it was overexpansion that led to the end of the Delian League?

I mean, we've heard about these disastrous campaigns in places like Egypt.

Do you think that's right, Leah?

Is that why the Spartans were able to take Athenian cities way up in the north in Thessaly?

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