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Episode 91, attrition and plague.

On the last two episodes, we discussed the events that ultimately led to Sparta

in the Peloponnesian League, severing the 30 years peace treaty and declaring

war on Athens in the summer of 432 BC.

As a result, throughout the winter of 432-431 BC. Both sides prepared themselves for war the following campaign season.

War hostilities officially began in March 431 BC, though it wasn't launched by a Spartan attack on Attica, but by Thebes, whose home region

of Boetia shared a long border with the Athenians.

For centuries, Thebes had quarrelled with their Athenian neighbors to the south, as Athens at every step had resisted Theban attempts to unify and dominate all of Boisha.

In fact, during the first Peloponnesian War, which we described in episode 42, the Democratic Athenians

had defeated the oligarchic Thebans in battle, and afterwards established democratic governments

in most of the Boetian towns, which of course maintained close

relations to Athens. Another important Boetian city that had been an ally of Athens since

the sixth century BC was Pl was Platia which occupied a strategic position

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