Paul Cartledge
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193 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Paul Cartledge’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So remember, Sparta has most of the cities in the Peloponnese on their side.
They're allies.
So it's not that difficult to get through to the Isthmus, which divides the Peloponnese from central Greece.
Where Athens sits, of course.
Immediately on the Isthmus is Corinth, which is Sparta's main ally, most important, and it supplies the majority of any fleet that Sparta manages to put together.
Corinth provides the ships.
You then get to Megara, which is next door to Athens, where thereafter...
A man called Brasidas decided to play the card of we are liberators.
These Athenians, they're your oppressors.
They claim they freed you from the Persians.
Yes, but only so as they could dominate you for their purposes, economic, political.
We are genuine liberators.
So what this guy does is he revives the rhetoric of the 480s against the Persians.
against the Spartans.
And there's been a ding-dong battle ever since the Persian Wars.
Who was most responsible for beating the Persians?
Was it the Spartans?
Was it the Athenians?
But it is a balance, because had the Spartans not...
agreed to join the anti-Persian alliance of defence, the main target of which was Athens, not Sparta, had Sparta not agreed to join, there would have been no land army capable of resisting the Persian land army.
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