Peace And Conflict Flashcards
Sparta took back “all places which…
[the Athenians] had seized from the Peloponnesians”
Thucydides 1.114
But Sparta also gained the Nisean Port and Megara, which gave them safe access across the isthmus between the Péloponnèse and the rest of Greece
They had not been given…
The independence promised to them by the treaty
Herodotus 1.67
At the time when Samos revolted from you […]
We were not one of those who voted against you.
Thucydides 1.40
Athens had no wish…
To see the strong Navy of Corcyra pass into the hands of Corinth […] She was not adverse to letting the two powers weaken each other […] Corcyra lay very conveniently on the coastal route to Italy and Sicily
The general belief was that,
Whatever happened, war with the Peloponnese was bound to come.
T 1.44
The Athenian ships would come up…
In support of the Corcyreans […] but they did not openly join the battle
T 1.47
Corinth was searching…
For a means of retaliation against Athens
(And would incite rebellion in Potidaea to do this)
T 1.56
The Spartans, however, promise to…
Invade Attica if the Athenians attacked Potidaea
T 1.58
Sparta wants peace.
Peace is still possible if you will give the Hellenes their freedom.
T 1.139
War could be avoided if…
Athens would revoke the Megarian Decree
T 1.139
Aristophanes Acharnians
Why accuse the Laconians of all our woes?
Pericles’ speech on arbitration
The Spartans have never once asked for arbitration
T 1.140
Some writers, among whom is…
Theophrastus the philosopher, Have stated that every year 10 talents found their way to Sparta from Pericles
Plutarch 23
Theophrastus is anti-Pericles; Plutarch seems quite balanced in using him
On six occasions…
Special Athenian weakness coincided with a decision or wish by Sparta to attack Athenian interests
Anton Powell
