From
Unity to Civil War:
The Fifth-Century Greek Tragedy
á
How did the Greeks move from a moment of unity and triumph
in the Persian Wars to Òcivil warÓ and disaster in the Peloponnesian War?
Key
Terms
1) Marathon 6) Melos
2) Salamis 7) Alcibiades
3) Delian
League 8) The Thirty
4) Peloponnesian
League 9)
SocratesÕ Trial
5) PericlesÕ
Funeral Oration 10)
Demosthenes & philippics
I.
The Persian
Wars (499/479)
Revolt of the Ionian Greeks and
Athenian Support
Round One (499): Darius Invades and the
Triumph of Athens
Round Two (479): Xerxes Invades and the
Greeks Unite
The Battles of Thermopylae, Salamis,
and Plantea
Western Civilization Saved? Contingency and History
II.
The Athenian
Moment: Democracy and
Imperialism (479-431 B.C.E.)
The Delian League
and the Athenian Quest for Hegemony (Empire)
The Peloponnesian League and Spartan
Resistance
The ÒGolden AgeÓ of Athenian Democracy
Pericles
(495-429) and Athenian Greatness
III.
The Peloponnesian
War and the Greek Catastrophe
(431-404 B.C.E.)
Sea Power vs. Land Power = Stalemate
War, Plague, and Brutalization
The Destruction
of Melos
The Sicilian
Adventure and the ÒHubrisÓ of Alcibiades (or: Athens)
The Defeat and Decline of Athenian
Democracy
The ÒFour
HundredÓ and ÒThe ThirtyÓ
Restoring Democracy and the Trial
of Socrates, 403-399 B.C.E.
IV. The Fourth Century and the Decline of
Classical Greece
The Decline of
Civic Identity
Continued
Conflict among Greek City States
A New Enemy: Phillip II (356-336 B.C.) of Macedonia
The ÒObsolescenceÓ
of the Polis and the Perils of Democracy