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Pericles employs a strategy designed to avoid …
Years: 431BCE - 431BCE
Pericles employs a strategy designed to avoid pitched land battles and rely instead on the Athenian fleet's control of the sea to assure Athenian food supplies and secure the empire on whose resources the expensive naval policy depends.
He encourages Athenians to crowd into the city behind the Long Walls, abandoning the Attican countryside to invasion by Sparta's superior army, with whom Pericles means to decline battle. (The Athenians do, however, mount cavalry raids to harass the dispersed foot soldiers of the enemy and to keep up city morale.)
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- Greece, classical
- Sparta, Kingdom of
- Corinth, City-State of
- Peloponnesian League (Spartan Alliance)
- Athenian Empire (Delian League)
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- Iron Age Europe
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Corinthian-Corcyran War
- Peloponnesian War, Second or Great
- Archidamian War
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Years: 431BCE - 431BCE
Locations
People
Groups
- Greece, classical
- Sparta, Kingdom of
- Corinth, City-State of
- Peloponnesian League (Spartan Alliance)
- Athenian Empire (Delian League)
Topics
- Iron Age Europe
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Corinthian-Corcyran War
- Peloponnesian War, Second or Great
- Archidamian War
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions