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Sparta and the First Peloponnesian War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

A. J. Holladay
A. J. Holladay
Affiliation:
Trinity College, Oxford
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In JHS xcvii (1977) 54–63 I argued against the view that the prevalent Spartan attitude towards Athens throughout the Pentekontaetia was aggressive and that in the First Peloponnesian War Sparta was eager to engage and crush her, being prevented only by the barrier of Mt. Geraneia with its Athenian garrisons. There seemed to me to be four main difficulties in this view:

(a) The Corinthians succeeded in crossing Mt. Geraneia with their local allies early in the war, even though the Athenians were already present: so why not Sparta?

(b) A full Peloponnesian army was able to reach central Greece by sea after the war had been in progress for some three years, and their reluctance on that occasion to cross the northern frontier of Attica even after they had defeated the Athenians seems inexplicable on this view.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 105 , November 1985 , pp. 161 - 162
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1985

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