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In Achaemenid Egypt a rebellion began under the command of Inaros, a Libyan king living on the border of Egypt. This rebellion quickly swept the country, which was soon largely in the hands of Inaros. He requested assistance from Athens which was granted. The alliance defeated the Persianw at...

I need help with this scenario, a challenge of sorts: Is there any possible way that Sparta could have over-achieved in victory with the Corinthian War? Is there any way Sparta could had better treated its allies in the Peloponnesian War such as Thebes and Corinth, leading to these previous...

Partly inspired by the discussion here: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/sicilian-expedition-flight.541657/ The POD is that Antiochus, the kybernetes of Alcibiades' ship whom Alcibiades had appointed commander of the fleet in his stead while he was in Asia Minor, decided not to...

Rome took a lot of influence and inspiration from the Ancient Greeks, though the Roman Republic was different in a lot of ways from the Greek Democracies they took inspiration from or admired. These differences allowed the Romans to reform and adapt depending on the situation, leading to the...

Everyone knows that by the time of the Peloponnesian War, Athens and Sparta were the two most dominant powers in southern Greece. However, long before those two infamous city-states had reached the zenith of their powers, they each had a rival that could go toe to toe with them in what they were...

When the Modern Nation of Greece formed in the 19th Century, they created a unitary state, with a monarch and later a president to lead it. Instead of the Ancient Past with Spartans, Athenians, Corinthians, Thebans, the Greeks sees themselves as Greeks. Challenge: With a POD from the Late...

Greetings, We know well from otl what the effect was on Greece and Hellenic culture when there was a large imperial regime and geopolitical power to the east in Anatolia, the Levant and Egypt in the form of the Achaemenid Empire. However, in opposition to a large unified imperium, what would...

In 499 BC, when the Ionian revolt flared up, Aristagoras, tyrant of Miletus and instigator of the rebellion, traveled to mainland Greece to seek support for the rebellion. While Cleomenes I was initially convinced to intervene and invade the heart of Persia, according to Herodotus at least, he...

The Spartans are famous for many things, and their society was unique among the Greek city-states for a number of reasons. As the entire reason it could maintain such a formidable army, it relied heavily on a force of hereditary slaves, known as helots. But the foundation for it all came in the...

The year is 433 BC, a huge alien spaceship crash near Sparta. The crash is so severe that nobody survives. However they find some very advance tech. They believe is a gift from Zeus. They exploit this new gift. In the next 10 centuries Sparta would conquer almost the whole world. The Spartan...

The Gods' Bloody Tune: A Classical Greek TL ''In those days some hoped that the days of strife might soon come to an end in Hellas. The gods, however, had other plans and mens will long continue to dance to their bloody tune...'' Xenophon, Hellenica Prologue: A Joyful Day Demetrios...

Lately I have been toying with the idea of having Athens successfully defend her maritime empire following the disastrous end of the Sicilian Expedition disastrous end in 413 BC and have her emerge from the war brused but still standing as a medditeranean great power and able to fight another...

Greetings to the board, My question, is a several part question regarding Ancient Greece in the Archaic period and how it related to the nearby Middle East and surrounding world. Before someone asks, yes this is in regards to my current tl, where I would like to expand upon Europe, an area...

What if the Sicilian Expedition never happened? How would it have changed the Peloponnesian War?

King Nabis of Sparta was the last remarkable king in the history of Sparta, having fought his wars and pushed his reforms in the backdrop of the first war between the Roman Republic and Macedon, after the former spectacularly defeated Carthage. He allied himself to the Roman side and against...

Could Sparta and Athens have reached an agreement, thus avoiding war? How would this agreement look like and what would be the consequences of no peloponnesian war?

So, the Persians win at Marathon, occupy Attica and raze Athens. The Spartans and them stalemate, with neither the Spartans able to force their way to Attica nor the Persians able to cross into the Peloponnese. Afterwards the Persians retreat to their original borders (in Macedonia I think they...

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...

Cyrus, The Younger, was a Persian nobleman who claimed the Achaemenid throne in the late 5th century BCE, slightly after the Peloponnesian War raging in Greece. He also hired a few thousand Greek mercenaries (including the famous Xenophon) to fight for him in his bid for the throne against...

This decisive defeat in OTL doomed them. But what if the fate of the battle had been reversed? Would it be enough to win the Peloponnesian War, or was it too late?