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>the glory of ((Greece))
>ancient ((Greek))
>during the Classical period
lol no, there were at least three major dialects in the Greek area and most city-states had some kind of centuries-old feud against other city-states. It's not even correct that they all banded together to fight off the Achaemenid Empire, many city-states (including Athens and Sparta) were collaborators both before and after the Persian War. Also the Battle of Salamis was the actual war-winning battle of the Persian War. Their shields are completely wrong as well; every hoplite personally furnished their own armor and shields were typically adorned with some household-specific design, and large shields were made of wood, not a cumbersome heavy metal.

All in all this smells like some Golden Dawn-pandering fascist project to appeal to nationist comradery long before it ever exists.

>>374561
There was a sense of Greek unit back then, which was disrupted by the polis, but it was certainly there. Sparta was humiliated in the Peloponnesian war for siding with Persia.
You are a faggot.

>>374563
Sparta and Athens BOTH tried to instrumentalize Persia against their rivals at different points in time, and so did many other city-states. And a reminder that Athens lost the Peloponnesian war because of a disastrous military expedition against the fellow a) Greek b) democracy of Syracuse all the way across the Mediterranean in Sicily. Hellenistic unity did not exist until it was imposed on the Greek world by the Macedonians, and then it collapsed again almost immediately when Alexander died.

The was a pan-Greek identity that was complicated by the polis, as I said. Athens did not enroll Persia in the struggle, Sparta did, against other Greeks, after Greece united to defeat Persia. It grossly undermined Spartan stature and is one of the reasons why everyone resented Spartan despotism after the Peloponnesian war, and why Sparta's hegemony didn't last long.
Athens was trying to make good on Greek unity by forcing a pan-Greek empire into existence and getting rid of the polis. It is only because of the great Athenian effort that the Macedonians were able to walk in and pick up where Athens left off. Athens saw the writing on the wall. Sparta did not because it was too reactionary and rigid.