1. Competition & Conflict in Ancient Greece
Persian Wars
Peloponnesian Wars

2. Ionian Greeks rebel against Persian Empire

3. Ionian Greeks

5. Persian (Achaemenid) Empire

6. Darius Invades, 490 BCE

7. Athenians defeat the Persians at the Battle of Marathon, 490BCE

8. Burial Mound (192 Athenians died; over 6,000 Persians)

9. Themistocles encourages Athenians to form a powerful navy

10. Model of a Greek trireme
Themistocles

12. Xerxes launches invasion of Balkan Peninsula 480 BCE

13. King Leonidas fights the Persians at Thermopylae Was it a victory?

17. Greeks organize the Delian League to meet continued threats from Persia

18. Age of Pericles: the Golden Age of Athens

20. War broke out between Athens and Sparta, 431BCE

21. Sparta, founder of the Peloponnesian League, invaded Athens

24. 1/3rd of Athenian population dies in a terrible plague, including Pericles

26. Internal fighting amongst Greek city states, Thebes defeats Sparta

27. Macedonia conquers all Greek city-states, 338BCE

29. Pericles Funeral Oration (later recorded by Thucydides)

30. "My task is now finished. I have performed it to the best of my ability, and in word, at least, the requirements of the law are now satisfied. If deeds be in question, those who are here interred have received part of their honours already, and for the rest, their children will be brought up till manhood at the public expense: the state thus offers a valuable prize, as the garland of victory in this race of valour, for the reward both of those who have fallen and their survivors. And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.

31. Closure Questions
How is one of these conflicts an example of Greek unity while the other is an example of Greek discord?
In what way did Athenian power contribute to the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War?
Why might it be said that all Greeks were losers in the Peloponnesian War?