The reaction of the Athenians to the Sicilian defeat was to look for scapegoats. Spartan forces now occupied Attica and over the next few years more than twenty thousand slaves defected to the enemy ...
Sparta’s entire culture centered on war. A lifelong dedication to military discipline, service, and precision gave this ...
Sparta’s class of elite warriors were freed from ordinary work, their needs met by slaves. The system had a built-in weakness.
The history of classical Greece is largely defined by divisions, both within and between city-states. Revolutions and coups, shifts in alliances and alignments, and nearly continuous balance-of-power ...
The reaction of the Athenians to the Sicilian defeat was to look for scapegoats. Spartan forces now occupied Attica and over the next few years more than twenty thousand slaves defected to the enemy ...
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