Paul Cartledge
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first heard Jul 2026
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And it was very, very expensive.
And it did indeed generate opposition, not only from outside, but also from within.
There is one rival of Pericles who chose to make the amount Athens was spending of both its own money and of allied tribute a political issue such that it was going to decide whether...
Pericles or this rival politician were to continue as the leading politician of Athens and Pericles won.
Not well.
So, Thucydides presumably died, but at any rate, he failed to complete his project.
He died writing about seven years before the actual war ended.
And it came to an end mainly, and this is an irony, thinking back to where we started from, Greece versus Persia, Greece, Athens and Sparta together versus Persia.
Well, it was actually the Persians' intervention...
in the Atheno-Spartan war via money that decided the outcome of the whole war.
Because in order to beat the Athenians, you have to beat them on sea.
So you therefore need a fleet.
And typically there are certain choke points in the Aegean and it's...
And one of them is the Hellespont.
So if you can get a really good fleet into the Hellespont, block off the Athenians' supply of, for example, grain, but also challenge them to take you on, there is therefore the sense that.
from 412, which is when the Spartans managed to persuade the Persians to come in on their side.
It's a foregone conclusion.
The Athenians finally find themselves blockaded by a Spartan fleet over winter, 405 to 404.
They're starved into submission and total submission, not agreeing to surrender on their term, but surrendering on the Spartans' total terms, total victory.
Paul?
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