Civil War and Civic Memory in Ancient Athens
by
Andrew Wolpert
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In 404 b.c. the Peloponnesian War finally came to an end, when the Athenians, starved into submission, were forced to accept Sparta's terms of surrender. Shortly afterwards a group of thirty conspirators, with Spartan backing ("the Thirty"), overthrew the democracy and established a narrow...