The 30 Tyrants | The Fall of Athens

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Athens is world renowned for its ancient democracy, however with its defeat at the end of the Peloponnesian War this ancestral constitution is threatened with tyranny. But how did Athens lose the war? In this video we'll explore the chaotic times of stasis between oligarchy and democracy that eventually led to their perilous position in 404 BCE.
Sources:
Thucydides 8.45 - 8.98
Aristotle. Constitution of Athens. 29 - 34
Xenophon Hellenica 2.2.10 - 2.4.43
Lysias. 12 “Against Eratosthenes”
Diodorus Siculus 13.36 - 14.4
Stem, R.,
2003 The Thirty at Athens in the Summer of 404, The Classical Association of Canada, Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 18 - 34.
LeCaire, L.,
2013 Tyranny and terror: the failure of Athenian
democracy and the reign of the Thirty Tyrants, EWU Masters
Thesis Collection. 179. dc.ewu.edu/theses/
Kagan, D.,
1987 The Fall of the Athenian Empire, Cornell University Press, London.
Krentz, P.,
2009 The Arginousai Affair, in R. B. Strassler, The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenica, Pantheon Books, London,
Krentz, P.,
2009 The Athenian Government and the Oligarchy of the Thirty, in R. B. Strassler, The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenica, Pantheon Books, London,
Chapters:
0:00 The Surrender of Athens
3:10 Stasis in Athens
5:03 The Coup of 411 BCE
8:32 The Argounisai Affair
12:10 The Installation of the 30

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I see that you almost directly quoted the ancient sources on the terms given to the athenians by the spartans and Corinthians, i can tell because i had to learn to translate them by heart

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Nice video! Conincidentally, I have to give a presentation about the 30 in my intro to ancient history class. Nice timing ;)

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I was hoping to make such a series as a mini series to Alexander but sadly that is a while away

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Alcibiaded is voiced by the guy who did Lionel Hutz from the Simpsons

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History repeats itself

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10:34 did you type 'he was really cool' on google translate?

[@ArchaiaHistoria]

I tried to fix the translation but google translate is terrible

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[@FormerGovernmentHuman]

So odd to me that not only did both sides either attempt to or actually receive Persian aid but they fought mostly on opposite side of the Aegean. Why did more of the conflict not take place in Greece? And why did the league and sparta or Athens not march on each others city states but fought what might essentially for many of the battles be a proxy war of sorts. It seemed more a persian proxy war than anything, the objectives don’t make sense. Then again I’m not in ancient greece with first hand knowledge of what occurred.

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I didn't know that Jay Leno was an Athenian 😂

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ευχαριστώ / Thanks

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Is your voice different to usual?

[@ArchaiaHistoria]

Perhaps? I got a new microphone recently so maybe it’s clearer now

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02:34 This is not the Spartan way,greetings from a Spartan in Athens

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[@michimatsch5862]

I started watching this video. Realized I didn’t know a thing about the war. Watch a video from Epimestheus about it then returned you actually talk about the war in the end, lol.

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[@cfroi08]

It reminds me of russian history. Tyrants constantly ruling and while each had different ideas and methods, it was still tyranny.

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Sokrates defended Young Alcibiade after this One was accused of mocking the Gods... And the punishment was not death but ostrakon... Anyway Alcibiade betryed Athena for Persians... He ended dead by them ...

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Polises... The Curse for Aheeians ( Danaos & hellenic) or better know by the romans given name of Greece & Greeks...never ending feuds among them... Still a gift from Gods...

[@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin]

"Either demolish the walls or welcome oligarchy." "Okay I guess we will beat around the bush and eventually welcome oligarchy." "Okay now you are an oligarchy, and we are demolishing those walls." "Huh?" "That 'huh?' Means you enjoy prison. Huh?"

[@marioskapetanakis]

Usually oligarchies in ancient Greece werent violent .however those 30 were brutal

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Glorious

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