Название: Remembering Defeat: Civil War and Civic Memory in Ancient Athens
Автор: Andrew Wolpert
Издательство: Johns Hopkins University Press
Год: 2001
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 208
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Размер: 10,1 МБ
Язык: Английский
In 404 b.c. the Peloponnesian War finally came to an end, when the Athenians, starved into submission, were forced to accept Sparta's terms of surrender. Shortly afterwards a group of thirty conspirators, with Spartan backing ("the Thirty"), overthrew the democracy and established a narrow oligarchy. Although the oligarchs were in power for only thirteen months, they killed more than 5 percent of the citizenry and terrorized the rest by confiscating the property of some and banishing many others. Despite this brutality, members of the democratic resistance movement that regained control of Athens came to terms with the oligarchs and agreed to an amnesty that protected collaborators from prosecution for all but the most severe crimes.