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Athenian theater is described as central to Athenian life and as a practice of education and enlightenment, not only entertainment.
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Athens
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Key Notes
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Athens had the conventional advantages for Greek unification, but Macedon conquered the Greek city-states because borderland energy, openness, and cohesion mattered more than obvious wealth and prestige.
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He explains Sparta as a conservative oligarchic land society built around controlling Helot labor, while Athens becomes a democratic naval society because rowers fight and therefore vote.
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Athens survives the burning of the city by treating the polis as the people rather than the physical place.
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The Athenian reply to Persia presents borderland virtue: liberty, gods, heroes, and refusal to make terms with a barbarian despite Persian superiority.
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Athens and Sparta avoid decisive options because each would destroy its own social equilibrium by freeing Helots or letting them control Sparta.
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Athens’ Sicilian expedition is an empire’s lazy, stupid, arrogant mistake that brings Syracuse, Sparta, Persia, and allies against it and ends the Peloponnesian War.
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Jiang reads Euripides' Bacchae as a critique of empire after Athens had become a mafia state and sacrificed young people in wars of empire.
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"now um the united states main adversary is that china um it's really russia because russia is the only country that has the resources..."
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"to the peloponnesian war the main aggressor was athens and what happened ultimately was that um the entire world ultimately aligned against athens because..."
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"...map of the Pal est in ian war you look at Athens and you look at Sp arta what you will see is that..."
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"But from for cities perspective they had to go to war because of their d ifferent person alities So S part a was cons..."
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"Well, you would also need a complete view of history. So rather than me specializing in a particular area of history, for example, the..."
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"So it's not as easy as Graham Ellison and Thucydides are making out to be. And there are parallels to our modern society where...."
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"And its allies see that America has become arrogant and is engaged in bullying behavior. So they're trying to break away somehow. And ultimately,..."
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"...a vacation okay so um he talks about the theater in athens okay the drama in athens or who wheresoever else it may have..."
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"...about a thousand people each there's some big city states like athens but even athens is not that big so at its height athens..."
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"...the greek city states and in fact what happened was that athens did become an empire but then the other the other greek city..."
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"...was trying to analyze this 30 year war between Sparta and Athens that really destroyed the Athenian empire. And he goes on and lists..."
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"...much more Democratic setting so the hegemon at that time was Athens um and Athens was the most vibrant democracy they had to be..."
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