The conflict between sparta and athens ca. 457-451 b. C. And its meaning in the first peloponnesian war

Author(s):  Y.N. Lubimtsev, Nijny Novgorod State Linguistic University after N.A. Dobrolyubov, Nijny Novgorod, Russia, lioubimtsev@mail.ru

Issue:  Volume 44, №22

Rubric:  Topical issues of world history

Annotation:  The object of the study of this article is the conflict between Athens and Sparta. The subject of the study is the meaning of the conflict between Athens and Sparta ca 457-451 BC in the First Peloponnesian War. The questions under consideration are that of the reasons and the purpose of the Spartan expedition in Dorida, the number of Athenian and Spartan troops in the battle of Tanagra, the result of the battle of Tanagra, the number of Athenian and Boeotian troops in the battle of Oenofytae, the reasons of Athenian victory in the battle of Oenofytae, the purpose of the expedition under Tolmides. The conflict is analysed with the method of diachronical analysis: the conflict is divided into several stages and the meaning of each of them in this war is under consideration, with the historical-typological method: the emphasis is placed on the opposite of the Athenian and Spartan polis in ideology, with the historical-systemic method: the attention is paid to geopolitical constants in the war between Athens and Sparta.

Keywords:  Athens, Sparta, the First Peloponnesian War, the expedition in Dorida, the battle of Tanagra, the battle of Oenofytae, the expedition under Tolmides.

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