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Jiang's term for the Delian League after Athens coerces allies, takes tribute, and expands militarily.
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Athenian Empire
Jiang's term for the Delian League after Athens coerces allies, takes tribute, and expands militarily.
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Jiang says the Delian League begins as an anti-Persian defense fund but becomes Athenian empire when Athens takes the treasury and demands tribute.
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He rejects the familiar Thucydides-trap frame by saying Athens, not Sparta, was the hegemonic empire and its allies dragged Sparta into a war Athens made unavoidable.
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Jiang introduces the Melian Dialogue as evidence that Athens coerced allies and islands that wanted out of its war.
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Jiang reads the Melian Dialogue as Athens abandoning liberty rhetoric for pure imperial might: the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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Jiang reads the Bacchae as a direct criticism of the Athenian Empire and the Peloponnesian War because Athens sacrificed young people to build empire.
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Jiang argues the Delian League became the Athenian Empire when Athens used force to prevent allies from leaving after Delian funds were taken.
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"...never they're never going to come back and now it's the Athenian empire and so what the Athenians propose is you know what it's..."
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"...it's not it's no longer a alliance but a empire the Athenian empire where everyone now has to pay tribute to Athens okay so..."
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"...like during the age of Pericles during the age of the Athenian empire okay this is a statue of Athena it's pure gold they..."
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"...the allies are going to try to break out of the Athenian empire okay and they're going to drag Sparta into the war Sparta..."
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"a weakness the helots if the Athenians ever choose to land forces on its coast the helots would all rise up together and overwhelm..."
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"Athenian population including Pericles and his two sons all right so uh can you can you read this so what's happening is that you..."
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"Athenians for ourselves we shall not trouble you with spacious specious specious pretenses either of how we have a right to our empire because..."
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"Lacedonians although they are colonists or that you have done us no wrong will aim at what is feasible holding in view that holding..."
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"so you know the Persians when they went to the Athenians basically said we are a vast empire you can't defeat us and let's..."
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"...accomplish this. So the Bacchae is a direct criticism of the Athenian Empire and it's direct criticism of the Pelagian War, okay? Does that..."
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"...to maintain its empire. So, the Dalian League basically became the Athenian Empire. And now, Athens got basically 20 % of its revenue from..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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Greek history begins with geography, but it ends here as a theory of abundance, blocked status, and pointless war: when the line stops moving, the young do not overthrow the old order directly.
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