The Delian League: The Rise And Fall Of Ancient Greece

This alliance became known as the Delian League. The time period for this is roughly 450 BC. The League members recognized Athens as the head of the League. Athens soon became very authoritarian in dealings with the member states often preventing them from independent and finally transferring the finances for the League from Delos to Athens. These funds simply became tribute to Athens.

It is apparent that the objective of the Iroquois was to socially bond and gradually diffuse their cultures to those in the North American region. However, the Delian League had an isolationist perspective, with the goals of resisting foreign pressures and protecting those admitted into the league. The background leading up the formation of the league composed of political struggles between the Greeks and Persians. The Delian League, founded in 478 BC, was an association of Greek city-states under the leadership of Athens. However, a series of Greek revolutions against Persian rule led to further Persian attacks across the land, most notably Xerxes’ second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, taking an enormous army and navy to Greece, letting all of Greece except the Peloponnesus thus having fallen into Persian hands. However, Greece defeated the Persian invasion force in the following year, ending the invasion and the threat to Greece, and hence boosting Greek nationalism and hence the desire to create a

The Delian League was an establishment formed in 478 BC. A large number of Greek cities formed an alliance under this league and together aimed to provide a strong defence against Persia, under the

The Athenians used the Delian League to enhance their prestige. They bettered themselves by strengthening their army and weakened other by taking resources for them. The Delian League gave Athens

After holding back the second Persian invasion during the Greco-Persian war, the Spartan king Pausanias was disgraced, and Sparta withdrew from the war (Thuc.1.95). This allowed Athens to gain leadership in the war, and several years later, establish themselves as leaders within the Delian League (Holland 2005: 362). Throughout the age of the Pentecontaetia (period of fifty years), the League continued its attacks on the Persians. It is during this period that Athens established itself as an empire. As time wore on, the Athenian Empire became more and more powerful, and it is here that they made their first blunder, setting themselves up for a disadvantage in the Peloponnesian War: by extending its power and subjected most of her allies in the Delian

The Delian League was created by the Athenians, and was an alliance between the poleis in an attempt to protect themselves against the Persians. The Athenians became oppressive and began sending garrisons to the other poleis. They destroyed any allies that wanted to remove themselves from the alliance. The Athenian goal of taking control over the entire Mediterranean region made other poleis anxious, and Sparta, the only other superpower of the Greek world, now removed itself from the league in 431 BCE. This ignited the Peloponnesian War that lasted for 27 years. It was known that Sparta had the stronger army and Athens had a more advanced navy, so Pericles developed a plan for the Athenians. The Athenian population would be placed within

Originally, The Delian League was an alliance created to continue the onslaught on the Persia after the Greeks successfully repelled the second Persian invasion - the founding principle was "offense is the best line of defense" and speculations that Persia could one day arrange another invasion (Butler, 2007).

Sparta ended up winning the war in a naval battle, they built a huge fleet of ships using Persian money and timber. They captured 170 Athenian ships and executed 3,000 soldiers. The Dellian league had no choice but to surrender. Conditions of surrender was that Athens had to take down the Long Walls, they could not rebuild a fleet bigger than 12 ships and they had to pay Sparta, which was now finally recognized as the dominant power in

The Peloponnesian War was an ancient Greek war fought between Athens and Sparta’s Peloponnesian League. The Peloponnesian War had many causes which included anti-Athenian feelings by the Peloponnesian League and competitive feelings for power. It began when Athens started to dominate and treat other members of the delian league like subjects. This in turn caused Sparta to refuse to join the delian league so he created a rival league which was the Peloponnesian League.

Argos received an excuse from the Delphic oracle to keep it from battle (Hdt. VII.148-152), and Messene was “so corrupted that [it] even tried to prevent Sparta’s attempts to come to Greece’s aid” (Plato, 692d). Other city-states avoided participation in the wars as well. The oracle also excused Crete from fighting (Hdt. VII.169), and the tyrant Gelon of Syracuse refused to let his state help Greece’s cause (Brunt 158-162). If these poleis had chosen to fight, the Persians may have been intimidated by the large Greek forces and avoided war. The Greeks instead presented an image of a nation torn by cowardice, thereby making the Persians more confident in attacking Greece. This lack of unity among the city-states created some

The Athenian Empire was a more voluntary alliance of city-states that were impressed by the Athenian Navy's prowess in the Persian War and were willing to pay for its protection. Athens used this revenue to further improve its navy, as well as improve its own infrastructure and defenses. Included in these improvements was the construction of large walls around the city and down to the port at Piraeus, home of the Athenian Navy.

I believe Athens being so addicted to power, now wanted to use their position in the league to ensure it never again slipped from their grasp. They intimidated the other member states and ensured military repercussions for any that dared to withdraw. The Delian league ceased to be a coalition as Athens alienated the other states as subjects instead of members. The Athenians made drastic adjustments to the leagues original mode of operation by moving all the funds closer to their land. They appeared almost inseparable from a dictator paranoid about losing

The Romans and Latium formed a coalition with the aid of a treaty, but the agreement soon came to an end and the treaty was abandoned and then renewed. The Latium felt that Rome wanted to be the head of the Latium again, so they proposed that they get absolute equality with the Romans and when their proposal was rejected they went to war to fight for their independence. Latium was defeated and Rome dissolved the league because it seemed safe to deal with one city at a time and not the whole league. This was meant to strip/ limit the Latium their power because by taking away their self governance they could not rebel or continue with war against Rome.

The exiting of Sparta from this alliance at the conclusion of the war gave way for Athens to rise as the power which controlled the alliance. This gave Athens control of much of the coast, and allowed them to control and build up great commercial power. This would lead to the creation of the Athenian Empire. Athens would hold power until war breaks out between them and Sparta. Athens would eventually fall to Sparta with the defeat of her navy at

The Greeks closest to the Persian Empire after the war created the Delian League to protect them from the Persians. The Greeks chose the Athenians to lead them. The Spartans were originally asked to lead them, but the kind was very arrogant, so they retracted their offer. The Spartans then created the Peloponnesian League because they didn’t think the Athenians should lead the Delian League because they were getting too much credit for defeating the Persians in the war. The two leagues didn’t get along at all. This rivalry eventually turned into the Peloponnesian War. This war went on for about 30 years. After the war, the government changed in Athens.