108 The Thirty Tyrants

The History of Ancient Greece

Ryan Stitt

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 98 minutes

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In this episode, we discuss the aftermath of the Peloponnesian War at Athens, including the reign of the Thirty Tyrants, led by Kritias; the Athenian civil war, the restoration of the democracy; and a reflection on the consequences of the Peloponnesian War

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0:30.0	Hi, I'm Ryan Stitt and welcome back to the history of Ancient Greece, Episode 108,
0:43.9	the 30 Tyrants.
0:46.8	At the close of the last episode, Samos was the lone holdout among Athenian allies in
0:52.2	the Eastern Aegean, as they refused to turn against the Athenians and capitulate to
0:56.4	Lysander and the Spartans.
0:58.5	Therefore the Spartan fleet placed the island of Samos under blockade and besiegement, before
1:03.4	sailing into Athens and doing the same there.
1:07.0	By April of 404 BC, the Athenians finally agreed to surrender, and Lysander oversaw the
1:12.9	enforcement of the peace terms.
1:15.4	In exchange for Athens being left intact and its people alive and free, all of their
1:20.4	exiles were to return home.
1:22.9	These were mostly oligarchically-minded men, friendly to Sparta.
1:27.6	Athens was to be governed by its ancestral constitution.
1:30.9	What this meant was unclear, and it soon would become a point of contention.
1:35.5	They were to give up their claim to all of the cities that they held in their empire,
1:39.6	though they would maintain possession of their territory in Attica.
1:43.3	And finally, they were to make the port of Pyrreus tax-free.
1:48.0	Defensively, they would agree to the destruction of their long walls and the fortifications
1:52.6	around Pyrreus.
1:54.2	They would disband their army, and they would surrender all but a dozen ships.
1:58.5	These were to be designated for commercial use only, and were probably the sacred ships,
2:03.5	Peralis and Salamonia, and the ten ships dedicated to the ten Attic tribes.
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