Sing to me of the Man, Oh Muse…(III)
Emboldened by their new prosperity, prestige, and power, Pericles and the Athenians began to pursue empire. Despite their protestations to the contrary, they began to treat their allies as their subjects. Ideologically committed to their own form of radical democracy, they saw it as their mission and their right to foster, or if necessary to [...]
Monday November 16th, 2009 in , Alexander the Great, Athens, Greece, Peloponnesian War, Pericles | No Comments »
