WI: Athens wins the Peloponnesian War?

Ok that helps.

Sparta would lose alot of power for sure, and they wont have the same sense of invicibility anymore.

Sea trade could develop substantialy along with sea warfare. due to the fact to beat the new power of Athens your gonna need better boats.

A more greek asia minor.

We also lose our Friend Alexander the Great to butterflies :(
 
Ok that helps.

Sparta would lose alot of power for sure, and they wont have the same sense of invicibility anymore.

Sea trade could develop substantialy along with sea warfare. due to the fact to beat the new power of Athens your gonna need better boats.

A more greek asia minor.
Very cool.

We also lose our Friend Alexander the Great to butterflies :(
I should say so! Would Macedon even still matter to the southern greeks?
 

archaeogeek

Banned
Very cool.


I should say so! Would Macedon even still matter to the southern greeks?

Probably still because there was a lot of trade. Then again the same question could still be asked about Southern Greece relative to Sicily. The Peloponnesian war wrecked the region and even if it didn't start it, it confirmed that the cultural center of greek culture was not in old Greece anymore.
 
Was there no plague?

A surviving Pericles would dramatically change Athenian politics and would significantly influence any future scholars in the region.
 
I'm talking a total reversal of OTL.

How about Alcibiades scoring some sort of diplomatic power play against his rivals as PoD? Sometime prior to the Sicilian Expedition.

He manages to sidestep Nicias' insistence that a larger force is needed, and the attempt to sandbag him around the time of the expedition's departure doesn't go ahead.

Alcibiades leads a coalition of Athenian and Sicilian forces, captures Syracuse, and perhaps destroys a significant portion of Sparta's allied navy.

Sparta continues to fight against Athenian naval supremacy, no game-changing event in Sparta's favour occurs. This avoids the coup back in Athens, and Athens keeps the initiative in the war.
 
Top