Introduction to Greek and Roman HistoryLecture 7

Crisis: The Aegean world in the Early-Fourth Century

The Greek world after the Peloponnesian War

Trasybulus restores democracy, 404

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Athenian revival?

394/393: Battle of Cnidus, Conon returns to Athens.

392-390: Naval campaigns of Thrasybulus. Byzantium, Mytilene, Rodhes, Samos and Ephesus become Athenian allies

Athenian garrisons in Lemnos, Imbros, Scyros.

386: The Peace confirms Athens’ authority over Lemnos, Imbros and Scyros

382: Sparta occupies the Cadmaea, Thebes’ citadel.

379: Thebans and Athenians liberate the Cadmaea

378: Sphodrias’ failed attack against the Piraeus. Formal alliance between Athens and Thebes

377-376: Byzantium and Chios join Athens and Thebes, followed by Rhodes and Mytilene.

Ephesus

Mytilene

Byzantium

Scyrus

The peace of Antalcidas (386)Xen. Hell. V.1.36From a condition which, during the war, can only be described as a sort of even balance with their antagonists, the Lacedaemonians now emerged; and reached a pinnacle of glory consequent upon the Peace of Antalcidas, so called. As guarantors of the peace presented by Hellas to the king, and as administrators personally of the autonomy of the states, they had added Corinth to their alliance; they had obtained the independence of the states of Boeotia at the expense of Thebes, which meant the gratification of an old ambition.

The decree of Aristoteles, 378-377

The decree of Aristoteles, 378-377

The decree of Aristoteles, 378-377