Persian Impact and Perspective Flashcards
What were the two main reasons for Persia to oppose Athens? Reference?
Athenian oversight in Ionia made Persian tributary collection very hard and they had supported the Carian revolt led by Amorges
8.5
What role did Tissaphernes have?
military governor of the west
What was the content of the 1st Sp-Persian treaty? Reference?
ancestral Persian territory to be restored to the P king (agreement that benefitted Persia far more than Sparta) and a mutual defence pact
8.18
What was the content of the 2nd Sp-Persian treaty? Reference?
similar to first but with crucial assertion of patronage of spartan forces should they be on king’s territory
8.37
What was the content of the 3rd Sp-Persian treaty? Reference?
extension of financial assistance (on a loan basis however) and the promise of the King’s ships to assist the Spartan fleet
8.58
At the time that Sparta started working w Persia, what was their main aim?
Reclaim position as leader of Greece (8.2)
When and why did Persia pause financial support to Sparta during Ionian War? Reference?
406 when Callicratidas took over as naurach of Sparta force from Lysander. He was v unpopular compared to Lysander in the eyes of Spartans and Ps
Xen.Hell.I.6
Upon Lysander’s return to position of naurarch, what happened in terms of Sp-P relations? Reference?
Persia provided the most ships and financial support they ever had done
Xen.Hel.II.1
What does Hyland say was crucial in Sparta securing a victory?
The Persian sum of money and support given to Lysander just prior to Aegospotami
What is the term for the period of war the Persians were involved with in Thuc’s Pelo war?
Ionian War
In what way does Alcibiades assert that Persians should be cautious as to allying w Sparta as opp to Athens at 8.46?
Athens are their imperial counterparts whereas Sparta were known as liberators
When did Cyrus take over Tissaphernes’ job? (ref) How does this impact the Pelo war?
407 (Xen.Hell.I.4)
Cyrus was very willing to support the Spartans
Why would Sparta initially have been on the backfoot with the shift of hostilities to the E Aegean?
It required seafaring abilities to not only travel there but maintain strength once there
What about the nature of the Ionian war meant money was a decisive tool in the conflict?
naval warfare was expensive and relied on good financial backing
What meant revolts in cities were well disposed to the Sparta-P cause?
often they were led by oligarchic factions
What did the difficulties in Sp-P relations allow for?
time for athens to continue to recover post-sic
When did Spartans seem to initially reach out to Persians? Evidence? Result of this?
431
Athenians intercepted a Persian envoy to Sparta in Eion which yielded info abt a series of letters betw Sp and P going back to 430
The Persian indiviuals were captured and Athens tehmselves thought they would try thier luck w persians but Artaxerxes, king at that time, died before they got in contact
Why did Persians continue hostilities with Athens after P of Callias? When did this reduce and why?
Athens was weak and only able to half commit to fighting back whilst preoccupied w the peloponnesians
c420 Athens made peace w Sparta so could have all resources directed against Ps and Ps were internally divided on dynastic and civic levels
What and when was a major insult to Persia by Athens? Signif?
support of satrapal rebellion of Amorges and Pissuthnes against the King in 414
led to persia being motivated to start hostilities again
What did Persia do following sicilian disaster that was hostile to Athens?
sent enoys to sparta to discuss an alliance
started to collect tribute from previous trubutaries in ionia
Why does Eddy suggest the repeat of conflict betw Persia and Athens was ‘natural’?
conflict that succeeded Peace of Callias
both places mituvated by military idealism
both had imperialist ambitions
What are the unsual things that occur around the time of Peace of Callias? How does Eddy explain this?
fighting between Gs and Ps still continues and tribute was not collected in 448
There was a treaty agreed c449 so Athens did not collect tribute on account of absence of Persian threat, however, a small conflict again occured and thus the excuse to continue collecting arose again but the conflict was not so significant as to warrant an official declaration of war (‘cold war’ Eddy’s comparison)
