The Athenian army, attempting to withdraw overland to other, more friendly Sicilian cities, was divided and defeated; the entire Athenian fleet was destroyed, and virtually the entire Athenian army was sold off into slavery. First, their foes were lacking in initiative. While the Spartans refrained from action themselves, some of their allies began to talk of revolt. With the treasury and emergency reserve fund of 1,000 talents dwindling away, the Athenians were forced to demand even more tribute from her subject allies, further increasing tensions and the threat of further rebellion within the Empire. The people of Syracuse were ethnically Dorian (as were the Spartans), while the Athenians, and their ally in Sicilia, were Ionian. [27] There, Cyrus allied with the Spartan general Lysander. By the middle of the century, the Persians had been driven from the Aegean and forced to cede control of a vast range of territories to Athens. Threatened with starvation, the Athenian fleet had no choice but to follow. Sparte craint aussi une révolte de ses esclaves (les hilotes) qui cultivent les terres des combattants. The fortification of Decelea prevented the shipment of supplies overland to Athens, and forced all supplies to be brought in by sea at increased expense. Following the destruction of the Sicilian Expedition, Lacedaemon encouraged the revolt of Athens's tributary allies, and indeed, much of Ionia rose in revolt against Athens. As the preeminent Athenian historian, Thucydides, wrote in his influential History of the Peloponnesian War, "The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Lacedaemon, made war inevitable." [12] When the rebellious helots were finally forced to surrender and permitted to evacuate the state, the Athenians settled them at the strategic city of Naupaktos on the Gulf of Corinth. These sanctions, known as the Megarian decree, were largely ignored by Thucydides, but some modern economic historians have noted that forbidding Megara to trade with the prosperous Athenian empire would have been disastrous for the Megarans, and have accordingly considered the decree to be a contributing factor in bringing about the war. Probeer het opnieuw. La cité de Mégare, accusée par Athènes d'accueillir ses esclaves en fuite, se voit interdire l'accès aux ports de la ligue de Délos et aux marchés de l'Attique. After boasting that he could put an end to the affair in the Assembly, the inexperienced Cleon won a great victory at the Battle of Sphacteria. Following the defeat of the Athenians in Sicily, it was widely believed that the end of the Athenian Empire was at hand. The Corinthians, the Spartans, and others in the Peloponnesian League sent more reinforcements to Syracuse, in the hopes of driving off the Athenians; but instead of withdrawing, the Athenians sent another hundred ships and another 5,000 troops to Sicily. In 403 BC, the oligarchs were overthrown and a democracy was restored by Thrasybulus. The Spartan strategy during the first war, known as the Archidamian War (431–421 BC) after Sparta's king Archidamus II, was to invade the land surrounding Athens. The result was a complete victory for the Spartans, which rescued their city from the brink of strategic defeat. However, the Spartans announced their refusal to destroy a city that had done a good service at a time of greatest danger to Greece, and took Athens into their own system. When Cyrus was recalled to Susa by his dying father Darius, he gave Lysander the revenues from all of his cities of Asia Minor. The Athenians however allowed Alcibiades to go on the expedition without being tried (many believed in order to better plot against him). La politique extérieure d’Athènes cause sa perte. Demosthenes, however, outmanoeuvred the Spartans in the Battle of Pylos in 425 BC and trapped a group of Spartan soldiers on Sphacteria as he waited for them to surrender. These ships were then released, and served as the core of the Athenians' fleet throughout the rest of the war. Voor het berekenen van de totale sterrenbeoordeling en de procentuele verdeling per ster gebruiken we geen gewoon gemiddelde. Guerre du Péloponnèse: Traduction par Jean Alexandre Buch... en meer dan één miljoen andere boeken zijn beschikbaar voor Amazon Kindle. Demosthenes argued for a retreat to Athens, but Nicias at first refused. "Lysander,", Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, Kirshner, Jonathan. Following this, Athens instructed Potidaea in the peninsula of Chalkidiki, a tributary ally of Athens but a colony of Corinth, to tear down its walls, send hostages to Athens, dismiss the Corinthian magistrates from office, and refuse the magistrates that the city would send in the future. Although the power of Athens was broken, it made something of a recovery as a result of the Corinthian War and continued to play an active role in Greek politics. Although the term "Peloponnesian War" was never used by Thucydides, one of the conflict's most important historians, the fact that the term is all but universally used today is a reflection of the Athens-centric sympathies of modern historians. Corinth and Thebes demanded that Athens should be destroyed and all its citizens should be enslaved. The Persians were slow to furnish promised funds and ships, frustrating battle plans. Als je productpagina’s hebt bekeken, kijk dan hier om eenvoudig terug te gaan naar de pagina's waarin je geïnteresseerd bent. Fearing that he would be unjustly condemned, Alcibiades defected to Sparta and Nicias was placed in charge of the mission. The Athenians managed to survive for several reasons. That treaty, however, was soon undermined by renewed fighting in the Peloponnese. The Syracusans sent their fleet to the Peloponnesians, and the Persians decided to support the Spartans with money and ships. Their treasury was nearly empty, its docks were depleted, and many of the Athenian youth were dead or imprisoned in a foreign land. [20], At the request of the Corinthians, the Spartans summoned members of the Peloponnesian League to Sparta in 432 BC, especially those who had grievances with Athens to make their complaints to the Spartan assembly. Facing starvation and disease from the prolonged siege, Athens surrendered in 404 BC,[2] and its allies soon surrendered as well. At the same time, Athens greatly increased its own power; a number of its formerly independent allies were reduced, over the course of the century, to the status of tribute-paying subject states of the Delian League. The fear of plague was so widespread that the Spartan invasion of Attica was abandoned, their troops being unwilling to risk contact with the diseased enemy. The rebels quickly secured the support of a Persian satrap, and Athens found itself facing the prospect of revolts throughout the empire. At the start of the war, the Athenians had prudently put aside some money and 100 ships that were to be used only as a last resort. by A.H. Clough. He sent his son Cyrus the Younger into Asia Minor as satrap of Lydia, Phrygia Major and Cappadocia, and general commander (Karanos, κἀρανος) of the Persian troops. In the battle, the Athenians obliterated the Spartan fleet, and succeeded in re-establishing the financial basis of the Athenian Empire. [14] The war was officially ended by the Thirty Years' Peace, signed in the winter of 446/5 BC. Thucydides was dispatched with a force which arrived too late to stop Brasidas capturing Amphipolis; Thucydides was exiled for this, and, as a result, had the conversations with both sides of the war which inspired him to record its history. According to Thucydides, the Spartans acted in this way out of fear that the Athenians would switch sides and support the helots; the offended Athenians repudiated their alliance with Sparta. L'île de Corcyre acquiert l'alliance d'Athènes lorsqu'elle se révolte, en 435, contre sa métropole : Corinthe. Alcibiades, while condemned as a traitor, still carried weight in Athens. The delay was costly and forced the Athenians into a major sea battle in the Great Harbor of Syracuse. A fifteen-year conflict, commonly known as the First Peloponnesian War, ensued, in which Athens fought intermittently against Sparta, Corinth, Aegina, and a number of other states. Athens stretched their military activities into Boeotia and Aetolia, quelled the Mytilenean revolt and began fortifying posts around the Peloponnese. We gebruiken cookies en vergelijkbare tools om uw winkelervaring te verbeteren, onze services aan te bieden, te begrijpen hoe klanten onze services gebruiken zodat we verbeteringen kunnen aanbrengen, en om advertenties weer te geven. Conflict between the states flared up again in 465 BC, when a helot revolt broke out in Sparta. The Athenian force consisted of over 100 ships and some 5,000 infantry and light-armored troops. The post off Pylos struck Sparta where it was weakest: its dependence on the helots, who tended the fields while its citizens trained to become soldiers. in Xenophon, Plutarch. For a short period of time, Athens was ruled by the "Thirty Tyrants", and democracy was suspended. Instead of attacking at once, Nicias procrastinated and the campaigning season of 415 BC ended with Syracuse scarcely damaged. Upon landing in Sicily, several cities immediately joined the Athenian cause. Alarmed, Corcyra sought an alliance with Athens, which after debate and input from both Corcyra and Corinth, decided to swear a defensive alliance with Corcyra. A peace with Sparta might have been possible, but the Athenian fleet, now based on the island of Samos, refused to accept the change. An oligarchical revolution occurred in Athens, in which a group of 400 seized power. Je luistert naar een voorbeeld van de Audible-audio-editie. "[7] Indeed, the nearly fifty years of Greek history that preceded the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War had been marked by the development of Athens as a major power in the Mediterranean world. Probeer het nog eens. The Lacedaemonians were not content with simply sending aid to Sicily; they also resolved to take the war to the Athenians. Through cunning strategy, Lysander totally defeated the Athenian fleet, in 405 BC, at the Battle of Aegospotami, destroying 168 ships and capturing some three or four thousand Athenian sailors. Meer informatie What then ensued was a period, referred to as the Pentecontaetia (the name given by Thucydides), in which Athens increasingly became in fact an empire,[8] carrying out an aggressive war against Persia and increasingly dominating other city-states. [15], The Thirty Years' Peace was first tested in 440 BC, when Athens's powerful ally Samos rebelled from its alliance with Athens. Athenian manpower was correspondingly drastically reduced and even foreign mercenaries refused to hire themselves out to a city riddled with plague. This tribute was used to support a powerful fleet and, after the middle of the century, to fund massive public works programs in Athens, causing resentment. Corinth and Syracuse were slow to bring their fleets into the Aegean, and Sparta's other allies were also slow to furnish troops or ships. The helots made the Spartan system possible, but now the post off Pylos began attracting helot runaways. It was alleged that the Megarians had desecrated the Hiera Orgas. As prominent historian J. [21] The Athenians, in response, reminded the Spartans of their record of military success and opposition to Persia, and warned them of the dangers of confronting such a powerful state, ultimately encouraging Sparta to seek arbitration as provided by the Thirty Years' Peace. The Athenians crushed the revolt, and peace was maintained. [18] The Corinthians, outraged by these actions, encouraged Potidaea to revolt and assured them that they would ally with them should they revolt from Athens. The Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC)[2] was an ancient Greek war fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. The Spartans and Athenians agreed to exchange the hostages for the towns captured by Brasidas, and signed a truce. Uniek aanbod (tweedehands) boeken. In 430 BC an outbreak of a plague hit Athens. Early Spartan attempts to break up the coalition failed, and the leadership of the Spartan king Agis was called into question. Verder worden recensies ook geanalyseerd om de betrouwbaarheid te verifiëren. Athens sent out a sizable contingent (4,000 hoplites), but upon its arrival, this force was dismissed by the Spartans, while those of all the other allies were permitted to remain. The longest Spartan invasion, in 430 BC, lasted just forty days. More battles ensued and again, the Syracusans and their allies defeated the Athenians. The economic costs of the war were felt all across Greece; poverty became widespread in the Peloponnese, while Athens was completely devastated, and never regained its pre-war prosperity. [36], A symbolic peace treaty was signed by the mayors of Athens and Sparta on March 12, 1996; 2,500 years after the war ended. The Spartan fleet under Callicratidas lost 70 ships and the Athenians lost 25 ships. In this phase, Sparta, now receiving support from the Achaemenid Empire, supported rebellions in Athens's subject states in the Aegean Sea and Ionia, undermining Athens's empire, and, eventually, depriving the city of naval supremacy. Between 410 and 406, Athens won a continuous string of victories, and eventually recovered large portions of its empire. In addition, the fear of a general revolt of helots emboldened by the nearby Athenian presence drove the Spartans to action. B. In 415 BC, Athens dispatched a massive expeditionary force to attack Syracuse, Sicily; the attack failed disastrously, with the destruction of the entire force in 413 BC. [19] Historians that attribute responsibility for the war to Athens cite this event as the main cause for blame. In the final stages of the preparations for departure, the hermai (religious statues) of Athens were mutilated by unknown persons, and Alcibiades was charged with religious crimes. For the earlier war beginning in 460 BC, see, For the book by the Greek historian Thucydides, see, Achaemenid support for Sparta (414–404 BC). Weeks later, though, Demosthenes proved unable to finish off the Spartans. Athènes connaît, comme les héros tragiques, la grandeur et la chute. Item kan niet op de lijst worden gezet. Revolt and faction threatened in Athens itself. Under Gylippus, the Syracusans and their allies were able to decisively defeat the Athenians on land; and Gylippus encouraged the Syracusans to build a navy, which was able to defeat the Athenian fleet when they attempted to withdraw. Elle est fille aussi du gigantesque essor intellectuel qui soulève la Grèce du Ve siècle, avec la médecine hippocratique, l'enseignement des sophistes et l'activité des orateurs, singulièrement Périclès. The Athenians captured 300 Spartan hoplites. The Athenians felt obliged to assist their ally. All of this was due, in no small part, to Alcibiades. Athens was then victorious at the naval battle of Arginusae. [16], The more immediate events that led to war involved Athens and Corinth. He would never again lead Athenians in battle. On the level of international relations, Athens, the strongest city-state in Greece prior to the war's beginning, was reduced to a state of near-complete subjection, while Sparta became established as the leading power of Greece. Athens proceeded to bring under its control all of Greece except for Sparta and its allies, ushering in a period which is known to history as the Athenian Empire. For a time during this conflict, Athens controlled not only Megara but also Boeotia; at its end, however, in the face of a massive Spartan invasion of Attica, the Athenians ceded the lands they had won on the Greek mainland, and Athens and Sparta recognized each other's right to control their respective alliance systems. [28][29][30], Cyrus the Younger would later obtain the support of the Spartans in return, after having asked them "to show themselves as good friend to him, as he had been to them during their war against Athens", when he led his own expedition to Susa in 401 BC in order to topple his brother, Artaxerxes II.[31]. Led militarily by a clever new general Demosthenes (not to be confused with the later Athenian orator Demosthenes), the Athenians managed some successes as they continued their naval raids on the Peloponnese. The surrender stripped Athens of its walls, its fleet, and all of its overseas possessions. Moreover, Spartan slaves, known as helots, needed to be kept under control, and could not be left unsupervised for long periods of time. Ontdek het beste van shopping en entertainment, Gratis en snelle bezorging van miljoenen producten, onbeperkt streamen van exclusieve series, films en meer, Je onlangs bekeken items en aanbevelingen, Selecteer de afdeling waarin je wilt zoeken. One of these posts was near Pylos on a tiny island called Sphacteria, where the course of the first war turned in Athens's favour. The Athenian Empire, although based in the peninsula of Attica, spread out across the islands of the Aegean Sea; Athens drew its immense wealth from tribute paid from these islands. Ed. After defeating the Second Persian invasion of Greece in the year 480 BC, Athens led the coalition of Greek city-states that continued the Greco-Persian Wars with attacks on Persian territories in the Aegean and Ionia. Thus, the two powers were relatively unable to fight decisive battles. He prevented the Athenian fleet from attacking Athens; instead, he helped restore democracy by more subtle pressure. Alcibiades demanded that he be put on trial at once, so that he might defend himself before the expedition. Goedgekeurde derde partijen gebruiken deze tools voor onze weergave van advertenties. Cependant, elle ne peut rester longtemps loin de ses bases arrières à cause des difficultés du ravitaillement. L'histoire politique se modèle, chez Thucydide, sur cette création majeure du Ve siècle qu'est la tragédie athénienne. However, the Athenian warships participated in the battle nevertheless, and the arrival of additional Athenian triremes was enough to dissuade the Corinthians from exploiting their victory, thus sparing much of the routed Corcyrean and Athenian fleet.[17]. Despite their victory, these failures caused outrage in Athens and led to a controversial trial. Grèce Classique : la guerre du Péloponnèse et la domination spartiate. From 414 BC, Darius II, ruler of the Achaemenid Empire had started to resent increasing Athenian power in the Aegean and had his satrap Tissaphernes enter into an alliance with Sparta against Athens, which in 412 BC led to the Persian reconquest of the greater part of Ionia. Both Brasidas and Cleon were killed in Athenian efforts to retake Amphipolis (see Battle of Amphipolis). After suffering a defeat at the hands of their colony of Corcyra, a sea power that was not allied to either Sparta or Athens, Corinth began to build an allied naval force. © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. en dochterondernemingen, Klantenservice voor mensen met een handicap, Pakketten traceren of bestellingen bekijken. Les Spartiates ravagent les campagnes de la cité d'Athènes : ils brûlent les récoltes ou saccagent les semis, arrachent les ceps de vigne et les oliviers… Comme la raison grecque en général, la raison historique est fille de la cité. This debate was attended by members of the league and an uninvited delegation from Athens, which also asked to speak, and became the scene of a debate between the Athenians and the Corinthians. The temporal indicator of guerre du Péloponnèse represents a chronological context associated with resources found in Boston University Libraries. The destruction of Athens's fleet in the Battle of Aegospotami effectively ended the war, and Athens surrendered in the following year. Athens maintained its empire through naval power. They were supported in this by Argos, a powerful state within the Peloponnese that had remained independent of Lacedaemon. The Athenians were thoroughly defeated. Sparta was later humbled by Thebes at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC, but the rivalry between Athens and Sparta was brought to an end a few decades later when Philip II of Macedon conquered all of Greece except Sparta, which was later subjugated by Philip's son Alexander in 331 BC. Sorry, er is een probleem opgetreden bij het opslaan van je cookievoorkeuren. Aussi organise-t-elle plutôt des raids de quelques semaines, en -430, -428, -427 et -425. On the advice of Alcibiades, they fortified Decelea, near Athens, and prevented the Athenians from making use of their land year round. The Syracusan cavalry rode them down mercilessly, eventually killing or enslaving all who were left of the mighty Athenian fleet. At the Battle of Sybota, a small contingent of Athenian ships played a critical role in preventing a Corinthian fleet from capturing Corcyra. [9], Friction between Athens and the Peloponnesian states, including Sparta, began early in the Pentecontaetia; in the wake of the departure of the Persians from Greece, Sparta attempted to prevent the reconstruction of the walls of Athens (without the walls, Athens would have been defenseless against a land attack and subject to Spartan control), but was rebuffed. After the death of Pericles, the Athenians turned somewhat against his conservative, defensive strategy and to the more aggressive strategy of bringing the war to Sparta and its allies. Rising to particular importance in Athenian democracy at this time was Cleon, a leader of the hawkish elements of the Athenian democracy. Cette dernière, risquant alors d'être évincée de la mer Ionienne, pousse son ancienne colonie thrace de Potidéeà quitter la Confédération maritime d'Athènes, créée après les guerres médiques. Nicias then sent word to Athens asking for reinforcements. Syracuse, the principal city of Sicily, was not much smaller than Athens, and conquering all of Sicily would have brought Athens an immense amount of resources. "Handle Him with Care: The Importance of Getting Thucydides Right. Barry Strauss: Athens after the Peloponnesian War. The delay allowed the Syracusans to send for help from Sparta, who sent their general Gylippus to Sicily with reinforcements. The Athenian strategy was initially guided by the strategos, or general, Pericles, who advised the Athenians to avoid open battle with the far more numerous and better trained Spartan hoplites, relying instead on the fleet. In order to uphold the Thirty Years' Peace, however, the Athenians were instructed not to intervene in the battle unless it was clear that Corinth was going to press onward to invade Corcyra. After arriving in Sicily, Alcibiades was recalled to Athens for trial. Thucydide est le créateur de la raison historique. in. This was a direct violation of the Thirty Years' Peace, which had (among other things) stipulated that the Delian League and the Peloponnesian League would respect each other's autonomy and internal affairs. The Spartans, whose intervention would have been the trigger for a massive war to determine the fate of the empire, called a congress of their allies to discuss the possibility of war with Athens. D’une confédération d’alliés, la ligue de Délos se transforme en un empire inégalitaire où les cités qui se révoltent sont impitoyablement châtiées. In the first phase, the Archidamian War, Sparta launched repeated invasions of Attica, while Athens took advantage of its naval supremacy to raid the coast of the Peloponnese and attempt to suppress signs of unrest in its empire. Demosthenes was chosen and led another fleet to Sicily, joining his forces with those of Nicias. Class, Faction and Policy 403–386 B.C., New York 2014, p. 80. With its victory at Mantinea, Sparta pulled itself back from the brink of utter defeat, and re-established its hegemony throughout the Peloponnese. [11] A further source of provocation was an Athenian decree, issued in 433/2 BC, imposing stringent trade sanctions on Megarian citizens (once more a Spartan ally after the conclusion of the First Peloponnesian War). With the death of Cleon and Brasidas, zealous war hawks for both nations, the Peace of Nicias was able to last for some six years. Seizing its opportunity, the Spartan fleet sailed at once to the Dardanelles, the source of Athens's grain. Unlike some of his predecessors the new Spartan general, Lysander, was not a member of the Spartan royal families and was also formidable in naval strategy; he was an artful diplomat, who had even cultivated good personal relationships with the Achaemenid prince Cyrus the Younger, son of Emperor Darius II. Corinthe et Mégare demandent leur aide à Sparte et à la li… In the 17th year of the war, word came to Athens that one of their distant allies in Sicily was under attack from Syracuse. Sparte dispose de l'armée terrestre la plus expérimentée de Grèce. The fleet appointed Alcibiades their leader, and continued the war in Athens's name. This was a reactionary regime set up by Sparta. He also persuaded the Athenian fleet to attack the Spartans at the battle of Cyzicus in 410. The plague wiped out over 30,000 citizens, sailors and soldiers, including Pericles and his sons. Athens was "to have the same friends and enemies" as Sparta. Alcibiades was not re-elected general by the Athenians and he exiled himself from the city. Upon arriving, he raised up a force from several Sicilian cities, and went to the relief of Syracuse. In plaats daarvan houdt ons systeem rekening met zaken als hoe recent een recensie is en of de recensent het item op Amazon heeft gekocht. With winter approaching, the Athenians were then forced to withdraw into their quarters, and they spent the winter gathering allies and preparing to destroy Syracuse.
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