Athens victory

Really liking this. Sparta will be nothing without it's helot slave powerbase, and Thebes is conquered... will something befall Macedon and prevent it threatening Athenian dominance as well?
 
I haven't been able to wait to post this update.
A period of exams is going to begin for me, and I need to do more searches for the suit, so I will make a break until July for this TL.

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414 BC to 413 BC

With the fall of Epidaurus in mid-autumn, Sparta found itself without allies, even if later, rumours saying that the Lacdaemonians had sought help from Persia have spreaded. The true was that, with or without Persia, it was already too late.
After having brought Sicily in the Athenian side, Alcibiades came back to Athens.
An assembly decreed shortly after the gathering of an army, one of the greater ever gathered in the greek history. Around 21.000 men were reunited: 17.000 hoplites from Athens and its allies, the Delian League, Argos and Sicily, 2.000 peltasts, 1.500 horsemen, and 500 archers. The Lacedaemonians, even after a general mobilization were able to align only 9.000 men. Around 3.000 men were too sent to reinforce Nicias in Messenia.
Desparate, the Spartans sent an embassy under Pleistoanax to ask peace, under the mediation of Corinth. But the negociations were broken as soon as the Athenians gave their terms: Sparta had to recongnize the hegemony of Athens over Greece and join an Hellenic League. Even the Corinthians were shocked.
The confrontation was inevitable.
In the beginning of spring 413 BC, the two armies encountered near Mantinea, a good omen were thinking the Spartans. The Lacedaemonians were led by King Agis II, and the Athenians were led by the strategos Alcibiades.
The Spartans proved to be equal to their ancestors, but it was an unequal fight. After hours of heavy fightings, the Lacedaemonian army was outflanked and routed. At the nightfall, 4.000 Spartans and 7.000 Athenians, Boeotians and other allies, were lying in the battlefield; King Agis II was among them.
Two weeks after, Alcibiades made junction with Nicias near Sparta itself.
Seeing that everything was lost, the city didn't offer resistance. When the Athenians arrived before the walls of the city, it surrendered.
Athens had won the war; after near half a century of battles: Athens was become the mistress of Greece.
 
I need some informations about Lycophron I of Pherae. Can you help me?
I'm looking for a map about the division in satrapies of the Achaemenid empire.
 
Within two or three weeks, I think post a v2.0.
As you have read it in this v1.0, Athens is victorious in this peloponnesian war.
Thereafter will begin an expansion of the Greek power throughout Mediterranean sea, with interventions in Egypt, Cyprus, wars with Persia and Carthage...
In this perspective of conquests, I hesitate about the italian theatre.
So, I've chosen to ask you if you want that I write wars between Rome and Athens, or that I simply destroy Rome in early IVth century during the celtic invasion, to leave the field free to the Greeks.
 
No Athens vs Rome?
Got to wait more than two hours, before getting impatient. :rolleyes: Give us a chance here.:p
?Does No Rome mean Greece remains with the Phalanx? Romes Manible formation proved more adaptable than the old Greek Phalanx.
Thereafter will begin an expansion of the Greek power throughout Mediterranean sea, with interventions in Egypt, Cyprus, wars with Persia and Carthage...
In 500 BC Greece was busy colonizing around the Black Sea. However the Peloponnesian Wars interrupted this.
?Now that the War is over, any chance that Greece will return to Black Sea?
 
After the war, Athens will begin a politic of expansion based upon panhellenism. There are great chances for an implantation in the Black Sea, one of the wheat lofts of Greece if I'm not wrong. I think first to campaigns against Scythians and Sarmatians in the northern coasts of Black sea in reply to calls for help from colonies.
The Pontus will be conquered during a war with the Achemenids.
 
I need some informations about Lycophron I of Pherae. Can you help me?
I'm looking for a map about the division in satrapies of the Achaemenid empire.

From his Wikipedia article, translated (using Google's translation tool)from the Dutch:
Lycophron I ( Greek : Λυκόφρων) was a statesman and military leader in ancient Greece. Lycophron I probably came to power with the support of democratic forces in his home town, because he constantly encountered fierce opposition from the nobility of Larissa and other Thessalian cities, whom he defeated in 404.
He joined an alliance with the Spartans and with their help he fought in 395 against Medius of Larissa who, with the support of the Boeotian League and Argos, conquered Pharsalus. Lycophron's ambition to consolidate power over all Thessaly was finally achieved by his successor, Jason (possibly his son).
 
Personally inclined to favour wars between Rome and Athens. Rome not existing just seems too "easy" for the Athenians.
 
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I need a greek title for the office of governor of a province, like the roman proconsul or the persian satrap.
I would have taken this latter if it hadn't been too persian for me.
Suggestions?

I need also informations about the organisation of the cleruchies.
 
Given that the Athenians never had great provinces to govern, only small colonies, the conquest of Asia Minor will necessitate the creation of such title.
Strategos seems too military. I thought to Anthypatos or Hypatos, but it seemed to me anachronic.
Nomarch is formed from 'nomos', what means 'territory' or 'province', I believe.
I've thought to archon only for the cities/colonies.
 
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