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What if Athens and the Delian League had defeated Sparta in the Peloponnesian War, maybe through a successful Sicilian Expedition under Alcibiades?
I hear that Athens, despite being domestically democratic, was not fond of rebellious provinces. The Delian League was quite centralized into Athens, and was basically a fig leaf for Athenian imperialism. Perhaps a decisive victory against Sparta and a continued hegemony could lead to a centralized, oligarchic situation like Republican Rome arising? How will the democratic Athenian politicians deal with this hipocrisy?
After defeating Sparta and the Persians, where will the Delian League expand to? I can see an annexation of Epirus and Macedonia and sponsorhip of an anti-Persian revolt in Egypt as the League's first moves from there. After that, will they expand navally into the Adriatic and Black seas, and terrestrially into Anatolia and Italy?
How will this Athenian Empire react to the expansion of Rome and Carthage, and the decline of Persia?