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How Paranoia Killed The Spartan-Athenian Alliance | The Spartans (1x14)

Uitzenddatum: Mrt 03, 2021

Athens, which had been allied with Sparta against Persia, begins to experience an expanded economy (and democracy under the leadership of Pericles). His construction of the long walls - fortifications which connect Athens to Piraeus - is considered to be a hostile act by an increasingly paranoid Sparta, and is the basis for future discord between the two states.