108 - The Thirty Tyrants

In this episode, we discuss the aftermath of the Peloponnesian War at Athens, including the reign of the Thirty Tyrants, the Athenian civil war, and the restoration of the democracy

Primary Sources:

Lysias' Against Eratosthenes

Lysias' Against Agoratus

Xenophon's Hellenica (Book 2)

Plato's Seventh Letter

Aristotle's Constitution of the Athenians
Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades

Plutarch's Life of Lysander

Diodorus Siculus' The Library of History (Book 14)

Supplementary Resources (Videos, Photos, Other Podcasts)

Video/The Peloponnesian War (Khan Academy)



Video/The Peloponnesian War (Epimetheus)

Video/Who Fought the Peloponnesian War? (Ancient History Guy)

Video/How did the Peloponnesian War Happen? - Athens Faces Sparta (Knowledgia)

Map/The Athenian Empire

Map/The Peloponnesian War

Video/Part 15 of the Peloponnesian War (History Den)

Video/Spartan Hegemony

Video/The 30 Tyrants | The Fall of Athens (Archaia Istoria)

Video/Remembering and Forgetting the Past: Athens in 403 BC (Classics for All)

Recommended Podcast Episodes:

***Antiquity in Question - The Peloponnesian War, the End of an Independent Greece?

***History in the Making - A Splendid Rope

***History in the Making - Legacy

***History of Modern Greece - Peloponnesian War: Athens Falls

***History of the World - Ancient Greece: Peloponnesian War, Part Two

***New Thinkery - Plutarch on Alcibiades

***Plutarch - Alcibiades – The Athenian Chameleon

***Plutarch - Lysander – Lucky Opportunist or Wise Strategist?