{"id":102035,"date":"2026-09-11T02:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=102035"},"modified":"2026-04-21T22:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:09:23","slug":"the-ancient-greeks-05-the-greeks-fight-back-4-liberation-to-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/the-ancient-greeks-05-the-greeks-fight-back-4-liberation-to-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ancient Greeks 05 &#8211; The Greeks Fight Back 4 &#8211; Liberation to Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rxDTBPLVGiA?si=U9pUrQGsW9nxwN3U\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>seangabb<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 1 Apr 2026<\/p>\n<p>Greece: A Brief History, c.700 BC &#8211; 500 AD<\/p>\n<p>What happens when victory creates power?<\/p>\n<p>In this final lecture on the Persian invasion, we examine the consequences of Greek victory \u2014 and the transformation of liberation into empire. With the Persians driven out, unity collapses. Athens and Sparta begin to diverge, and a new political order emerges in the Greek world.<\/p>\n<p>We explore:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The rebuilding and fortification of Athens<br \/>\n&#8211; Themistocles and the rise of Athenian naval power<br \/>\n&#8211; Spartan suspicion and the fall of Pausanias<br \/>\n&#8211; The ostracism and exile of Themistocles<br \/>\n&#8211; The creation of the Delian League<br \/>\n&#8211; The transformation of alliance into Athenian empire<\/p>\n<p>This lecture shows how victory over Persia leads directly to the rise of Athens \u2014 and to the tensions that will eventually produce the Peloponnesian War.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>seangabb Published 1 Apr 2026 Greece: A Brief History, c.700 BC &#8211; 500 AD What happens when victory creates power? In this final lecture on the Persian invasion, we examine the consequences of Greek victory \u2014 and the transformation of liberation into empire. With the Persians driven out, unity collapses. Athens and Sparta begin to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1526,7],"tags":[1527,732,432,1095,1617,1101,1468,1151,1582],"class_list":["post-102035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greece","category-history","tag-ancientgreece","tag-athens","tag-diplomacy","tag-fortification","tag-herodotus","tag-persia","tag-seangabb","tag-sparta","tag-thucydides"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qxJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102036,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102035\/revisions\/102036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}