Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War

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Peloponnesian War and Thucydides
Thucydides Realism by Doyle
Thucydides on the Causes of Athenian Imperialism – “Fundamentalist Realism”
The Economic Motive in Thucydides – “Structuralist Realism”
The Commercial Policy of Imperial Athens – “Constitutional Realism”
Conclusion

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The Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.) was a conflict between two ancient Greek hegemonic powers, Athens and Sparta, and their allied city-states. Athens, the strongest naval power and the leading state of the Delian League, was a commercial society ruled by free democratic system. Sparta, on the contrary, the strongest land power and the leader of the Peloponnesian League, was an agrarian society ruled by disciplined oligarchic social system. The Thirty Years’ Peace between Athens and Sparta was broken after Athens resumed its expansion in 446 B.C. A few years later,

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Boner further introduces measures that Athens took to energize its market and to concentrate the trade of empire into the port of Piraeus. Foreigners were encouraged by law to settle in the city and the port to boost up its economy. The people of Ceos were forbidden to export their ruddle elsewhere than to Athens. Regarding financing, Athens enacted a law that says, “It shall not be lawful for any Athenian to lend out money on a ship which is not commissioned to bring corn to Athens or anything else which is particularly mentioned.”

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Doyle, Michael W. Ways of War and Peace. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997.
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