Our day off yesterday was mostly on predictable lines. Guys simply hanging around, getting wasted. Some guys were off shopping. Some others went to the beach.
But then things did get heated up a bit by the time the sun began to set. Post lunch, most of us were in and around the pool. 8 of the guys, including the skipper, were playing water polo, 4-a-side. Others, including Bhookha and some of his buddies, were sitting around drinking beer. When the guys called the water polo match off, the score read 11-11. Bhookha, in his warped sense of humour, remarked that even in this game we couldn’t win. Skipper, who’s been seething in anger for the last couple of days, quickly retorted saying, “We’re lucky you aren’t the coach here ‘coz then we’d have definitely lost”. Not sure whether that was really funny, but everyone in and around the pool broke out in loud laughter. Not just that, we were guffawing for a good 2 minutes. Bhookha’s face, already tanned red, seemed to be turning into a strange shade of purple. For the first time, ignoring that team meeting where Skipper rooted for Style Bhai, the Skipper has shown that he’s had enough of Bhookha. This one moment may prove to be a decisive moment in our failed IPL campaign. If I were to read too much into it, I think from now on the Skipper will run the ship.
I wonder what took Skipper so long. He didn’t select this team. He didn’t participate in the talent scout. He didn’t decide the batting order. He didn’t decide that Junta would bowl the Super Over. He didn’t prefer the young Aussie over Bangla. He didn’t have a problem with Style Bhai’s attitude. And when the shit has hit the fan, he is the one cleaning up. He, along with Dildo, have become the faces of our miserable performance. Where’s Bhookha, all this while? He is peacefully hiding behind the army of support staff he has collected for himself. And of course his laptop.
After the last match, Lordie’s had a quiet word with Skipper. Essentially telling him that if they have him in the side they need to use him properly. Can’t blame Lordie, you know. The guy padded up almost as soon as the openers were in. And he remained padded up for the rest of the inning. At his age, padding up and padding down is quite an effort, you know. These foreigners have absolutely no respect for the elderly, I tell you.
Dildo’s informed Boy George that he wants to be with the team for the last 2-3 matches. Looks like the marriage season in India is soon getting over.
News is rife that Dildo’s contacted Sticky Something and asked about his availability for the entire IPL season next year. If Sticky Something makes himself available, looks like he will be made captain and he will build the team for next year. Also, Dildo’s not selling the team, I’ve heard from very reliable sources.
I took time to read some of the comments. Looks like some of you want the dope on nocturnal activities of our superstars. I don’t blame you coz that’s what I want too. But unfortunately, I can’t be going to nightclubs every night. And moreover, everyone’s become very cautious about having anyone from our team around. And I will only write about what I see, hear and observe. I am not going to cook up stories to cater to the galleries. So, if I have not seen or heard about Appam Chutiya, I will refrain from writing about him.
Talking about Appam Chutiya, the single-biggest contribution of this blog to humanity has been the reformation of Appam Chutiya. For the last week or so, he has been at his best behaviour since the time he was punished in school for pissing on the plants. My congratulations to all those who’ve made his name such a cult. In the last match, even the crowd in SA was calling him Appam. I would assume a Nobel Peace Prize for such service to humanity may not be too far fetched, would it?
Am headed for breakfast now. Will catch up with you folks later. Till then, alvida.
P.S. Some guy has been posting comments using the name IPL Anonymous. It’s not me. I will really appreciate it If any of you tech savvy folks can tell me how he’s doing it and how I can stop it.
thanks for the posts..I am pretty sure I know why you call SRK ‘dildo’, that he has a thing for ‘sausages’ is well known. I have always believed that he’s a big fake — everything about him — his love for his wife. love for India, cricket, etc — when I am sure all he cares is the hole she has in common with sausages. so in short, way to go dude… I am pretty sure that you are not one of the players — but you could be someone from the media.PS: could you give us the latest on the sandy mandy bet? who are the guys who claimed victory?is the Bubli, Bablee thing real? Bubli is hot man and like you, I have the hots for her too..Keep writing and good luck with everything…
Communists can come and suck my balls dry …
me SHAHRUKH KHAN aka DILDO , appeal all u people that , this is all fake, its all publicity stunt, there’s nothin to do with IPL 2009. thank you
Sheikh finally sexessful last night! You guys know with what.
appam chutiya is a seriously LOL nickname
You should stop allowing anonymous or name/url type of comments. I think there is an option like, “the user must be logged in to comment”, which you should use to stop comments from IPL Anonymous and other anonymous comments you are getting.
Sticky Something = Ricky Ponting
great one
This is being done as it was asked to be done. Hope you understand this, FakeIplPlayer and STOP it right here ! Just STOP.
Hi Fakie,You claim to be a KKR guy and privy to insider info from the camp!!! What’s happening to the Richie Rich’s team from Mumbai?? Another set of losers all the way!!Lady Rich is not dancing any more?? Aila is surviving simply on his prophetic post game statements which are immedialtely lapped up and made into gospels by Kishen and Little Monster. Tell us abou these guys too!!
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Buddhiman Baba=Wriddhiman SahaBatliwala=MallyaDewar=Rahul DravidBig Brother=Raj KundraBublee-bret Lee?Babli-Preity ZintaSticky Something-Ricky pontingBubbanChota Chetan-Lady Jaya- JayawardeneGhati Baba- Rohit SharmaCastro- Fidel edwardsSpringbok- Charl Langeveldt??? Morne Van Wyk?Deeghra Patan-Irfan pathanP.E.Arnold Power- Ramesh PowerVinnie Dildo/ Badsaah Dildo – Shah Rukh KhanKishen Kanhaiyya – Ravi ShastriLord Almighty /Lordie- GangulySheikh of Tweak / Sultan of tweak – Shane WarneBevdaa – Jessie RyderBig Sister – Shilpa ShettyLittle Sister-Shamita ShettyCalypso King – GayleMr. Batlivala – MallayaPrince Charles of Patiala – Yuvraj SinghAila/Little Monster/ Little Master – SachinPedophile Priest – GilCHRISTLittle John/ India’s best fast bowler – Ishant SharmaKaan Moolo /Former India fast bowler who will remain a former India fast bowler -AgarkarAppam Chutiya – SreesanthPhoren babas – McCullum & BuchananBhookha Naan-BuchananRDB – Ranadeb BoseMira Bhai – Harbhajan SinghSandy Baddy Babe – Mandira BediCandy Nickle- Andy Bichel- bowling coach of KKRMangal Pandey- Lakshmi Ratan ShuklaBhookha/bhookha Naan- BuchananBoy George- Brad Hodge?? Or Joy Mukherjee?Gilli danda- Ashok DindaStyle bhai –Murali kartikBangla Tiger- MortazaBengal Tiger- Ranadeb BosePeter ka beta/ Re-peter- PetersonJunta- Ajanta MendisShakespeare- Aakash ChopraGanji Hangar- Sanjay BangarPrince/ Prince Charles of Patiala /Prince of Patiala = Yuvraj-YuvraajRVR Sing/ Pamela Inder Singh, – VRV SinghSheeghra –Patan= Yousuf PathanAkram Azam- KamranReserve Keeperkeeper- wriddhiman saha??Chintu singh- anurit singh?Big Mac- Matthew hayden?Joker/Anchor-?Very very special friend Ram = VVS LaxmanMr Batliwala-Vijay MallyaSparrow / parrott = McGrathKiwi coach- Stephen Fleming?Bewdaas-Royal Challenger BloreBubblies- Kings IX PunjabThe Rajputs = RRDhakkans- Deccan
so man just keep up. but just finally after IPL , reveal yourself or atleast give a hint. i think u r a bengali,cricketer n ganguly supporter.u may be ganguly.
Dada’s real caliber is seen in his figures
This fake iplplayer is definitely Ravi Shastri……….Damn sure
Hey guys!!! i am gonna reveal the name of the Fake IPL player… he has stated in a comment that, he is a commentator and studied in premier institute…. he did his Masters in Business administration in IIM … kya FIP, am i right?? now, you are into a trap…..i will give you all a clue… this guy has bald head with a spec… trace it if u can
Hey
good keep it up
We all know Sreesanth is really stupid. Read this blog to know more about why Fakie is after him. It ain’t funny.Click here to know why:
Vinnie Dildo is nothing different from a Tawaiff or a Hijda who dances at public gathering for money.He is so obsessed with money that he hired loads of Pakistani players last year to expand the market for his films and shows in Pakistan. This year since Pakistani players were not around, he hired Mortaza to expand his market in Bangladesh.Dick-less, spine-less hijda of Bollywood is a no-hoper. He cannot act. Fucking hams. He takes panga with Amitabh Bachchan, Amar Singh, Aamir Khan, Salman Khan and now Sunil Gavaskar. Randi Khan, Amar Singh se thappad to mila hi tha, tujhe Salman se bhi pitna chahiye tha.Randi Khan, you cannot act like Aamir, you don’t have the physique like John/Salman, you cannot dance like Hrithik and you do not have the comic timing or stunts like Akshay. You call your “Badshah” and sing from roof tops “I’m the best”. Infact, you are worse than Appam Chutiya! Atleast, Appam takes wickets for India.You fucking Randi Khan, how dare you humiliate India’s best captain Saurav Ganguly and how dare you side-line him? If there is an icon in IPL, it his him! But you Buchanan-cock sucker Dildo Khan, took panga against him too.And Randi Khan, you don’t even do your own stunts like Akshay does and you, ball-less, dick-less asshole, have the audacity to challenge India’s greatest Test Batsman, Gavaskar’s cricketing knowledge. He is one of the shrewdest cricketing brains in India. Mind you, he didn’t wear helmets and didn’t use stunt doubles to face ferocious fast bowlers from WI while scoring 13 Test tons against. Das re-take leke to randi bhi dance kar sakta hai, mard ka bachha hai aur lauda hai to Ishant Sharma and Zaheer Khan ko bina helmet ke face karke bata, saale Randi Khan.Jaake Karan Johar ka land choos, saale bhadwe SRK!
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Sure.. you should win Nobel peace for the “Appam” thing!! He touched only 1 ball in 10 deliveries yesterday… I am very happy!
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Friend…..u r blog is interesting day by day. Its truelly innovative and puts lime lights on dirty fractionism within a team and their menaces. Funny narrative makes its special. As shit khan (shahrukh) is having sleepless nights in mumbai , we r having sleepless nights waiting for new posts in ur blog. Awesome work and keep it up. We are with u.As far as kolkotta night mares are concerned they are done and out now. Funny that shit khan interested in ‘something sticky’ looks like their ‘night mares ‘ will continue even for next year ( second innings!! ). It was a talented team but dildo made a mess out of it , also thanx to the Ceo ‘s and cfo’s of the team , I think next year they need 11 ceo’s one for each player. Bull shit , they thought cricket is some management stuff with high end gadgets and also fancy stuffs ( lion cartoons on ground suck!! ) . His masala movie terribly failed , next year he may think of hiring jobless subash ghai or chopras .Ganguly should get chance next year , or else some talented new comer but no foreign ‘shits ‘ . Looks like bevdaas back to form and also mumbai Indians. Royal challengers are much gel’d as a team , and despite having lack of talents ( say biggies ) , they perform exceptionally well. But the sight of middle aged woman like shilpa makes the team bit terrible!!. Even bublies are concerned with their semi final birth , and their half aged(oops sorry middle aged ) and half boiled mentor preity zinta cheering at ‘appam chutiya ‘ and breast man Vvr singh isawsome . Instead of these middle aged actresses and actors , its nice to see some young people in the crowd and also in some team management . Say deccan chargers or even royal challengers. Keep up the good work
You are Boria Majumdar. That’s fucking what who you are.
how fake ipl guy workscall up a friend in india/anywhere and give him the juicy tips . as everyone uses mobile nobody can suspect . that friend/relative can call up another person/ (or he himself) who writes the blog .the writer can be the gifted writer . he gets the juicebits from the insider . he gets time and space to write . difficult to trace if 2-3 links exists between insider and writer .it was worth the effort – this became hotter than the real IPL – we all enjoyed it
IPL & a Chaddi CricketerIPL & a Chaddi CricketerIPL & a Chaddi CricketerChaddi Cricketer Lordie's is similar story to labour Unionism in Bengal. In a factory when a worker joins- Will not perform- getting paid for no work is his birthright- resorts to unionism if you try to remove him – Starts Cholbe na Korbe naHere also- Chaddi Dada was not performing as Captain or player- He expects to be treated like a star irrespective of his performance.- When removed from Captaincy, resorted to group alongwith his chamchas. – BoriaBistar zumdar Bhendi TV etc.- Met CPM leaders Torned Speaker Bomnath ..Kharrrrrr…Fakje IPL player- Rubbed Pawar;s … lolNet resultThese commie Bongs have screwed the industry in Bengal and now screwing cricket in Bengal and India. also.Last year Chaddi DADA and bongs enjoyed SRK Bhookha literally Honeymoon all Bengal Dada Fake IPL Player were in ecstasy .This year parted away lol.. so calling him names.Chaddi hangerWhen short ball is bowled his Chaddi slips. This happened today also.Chaddi Dada 1 run in 8 ballsKumar to Chaddi Dada, OUT, and the short ball works again, how many times in this man's career have we seen him succumb to that, even I've lost count! After the fuller slower ball, PK changes up with a short delivery on the stumps and Ganguly makes a real mess of that, just lobbing it over the infield and straight to the man running in from the deep midwicket boundary, easiest catch he'll getChaddi drops from this Chaddi hanger Lordie Dada.Forget about that Chaddi Hanger Dada.He is root cause of failure of KKR.He is a main distraction.If they make LR Shukla or Dinda, Saha etc captain still winning rate will improve but remove that cry baby DadaAnd stop comparing him with Dravid Sachin Sehwag Laxman . They are class apart.Leave them Bhookha Bengal Sookha Kangal.Ratan Tata waited too long and made loss.Now SRK repeating waiting too long will make huge losses.With these fools you can make only losses.Stay away from these fools who think they are intelligent and come out with theories. Leave them Bhookha Bengal Sookha Kangal.No solutions in real life.Captaincy series wins abroad against quality oppositionPataudi one series win Bedi and Wadekar 2 Series wins each against mighty of their times.Azar Chaddi Dada one each against quality oppositiom but Chaddi Lordie's Captaincy only series win gainst PAK abroad was shared so credit is devided between Dravid and Ganguly.Dhoni and Gavaskar one each against mighty side of their times Australia.Verdict- Chaddi Cricketer Dada was not most successful captain as projected by eastern journo and fans. As he captained for much lomger time with support of then Dalmiya. But he could not achieve what Bedi, Wadekar, Dhoni, Gavaskar achieved in shorter duration as captain.Now greatest Chaddiwala Zalimulian Dada period full of Zimbabwe Bangla Desh wins Series win against quality opposition nil. How can we say him greatest ever captain?Captaincy series wins abroad against quality oppositionPataudi one series win Bedi and Wadekar 2 Series wins each against mighty of their times.Azar Chaddi Cricketer Lordie Dada one each against quality oppositiom but Chaddi Captaincy only series win gainst PAK abroad was shared so credit is devided between Dravid and Chaddi.Dhoni and Gavaskar one each against mighty side of their times Australia.Verdict- Chaddi Lordie the Chaddi Cricketer was not most successful captain as projected by eastern journo and fans. As he captained for much lomger time with support of then Dalmiya. But he could not achieve what Bedi, Wadekar, Dhoni, Gavaskar achieved in shorter duration as captain.Chaddi Lordie Dada facing pacers on placid wickets. Lol…Pak test scene…42.3 Shoaib Akhtar to Chaddi , no run, moves outside leg stump, Shoaib sends a slower one on the stumps, tapped to backward point 42.4 Shoaib Akhtar to Chhaddi Dada, 1 no ball, Ah! Drama. Ganguly moved outside leg stump and Shoaib followed him with a bouncer and Ganguly ducked and fell over on his backside DADA COUNTING STARS IN BROAD DAY LIGHT.. FIGHTING ON EQUAL TERMS.42.4 Shoaib Akhtar to Chaddi Cricketer, OUT, Again he backs away, Shoaib fires in a full pitched delivery on the leg stump, Ganguly misses to connect with his heave and the leg stump is pegged back. Kumble has declared. SC Ganguly b Shoaib Akhtar 46 (58b 4×4 0×6) SR: 79.31 Now Australia on flat pitch and old ball …61.5 Lee to Cgaddi Lordie Ganguly, no run, good bouncer, quick and angling towards the batsman, had Chaddi Cricketer Ganguly at sea there as he took his eyes off the ball61.6 Lee to Chaddi Dada Ganguly, OUT, Ganguly attempts a big hit but mistimes it, Lee delivers from round the wicket and lands it on a full length, Ganguly makes room for the loft but miscues it to Clarke at cover, it was in the air for a while SC Ganguly c Clarke b Lee 27 (37b 2×4 0×6) SR: 72.97 Now in IPL Kumar like rookies are threatening him with short pitched stuff.Why Chaddi Lordie Dada is tame drawn test scorer? 131 Drawn v Eng 1996 at Lord's balls played 301 strike rate 136 Drawn v Eng 1996 at Nottingham balls played 361 strike rate147 Drawn v Sri Lanka 1997 at Colombo balls played 427 strike rate109 Drawn v Sri Lanka 1997/98 at Mohali balls played strike rate173 Drawn v Sri Lanka 1997/98 at Mumbai balls played strike rate101* Drawn v NZ 1998/99 at Hamilton balls played strike rate125 Drawn v NZ 1999/00 at Ahmedabad balls played strike rate100* Drawn v NZ 2003/04 at Ahmedabad balls played strike rate144 Drawn v Aus at Brisbane balls played strike rate100 Drawn v BD 2007 at Chittagong balls played strike rate102 Drawn v Pak 2007/08 at Kolkata balls played strike rate238 Drawn v Pak 2007/08 at Benglore balls played strike rate India won 38 tests since 1996 and see his contribution to wins.The only three innings innings caused India win see the quality.136 Win v Zim 2001/02 at Delhi balls played strike rateNo comments other than as always great innings against minnows.101 Win v Zim 2005/06 at Bulawayo balls played strike rateLaxman made 140 ran out in mixup with Saurav Ganguly128 Win v Eng 2002 at Leeds balls played strike rateOnly century caused against quality opposition.Here Dravid scored 148 Sachin scored 193 in the match Dada also made hay while sun shines.Corrigendum as data was few months old Finally The greatest Chaddi Lordie scored century for winning cause lol.. A technology demonstration that he can cross magical figure of 100 in win against quality opposition at home. Hurray all boka’sKitana bhi Gaand patkao Chaddi can not be compared with Sachin Dravid Sehwag and Dhoni.Chaddi Lordie Sir Chaddi Cricketer the Bangla standard in ODI win Now let us see the effort and against which side124 v Pakistan Dhaka 1998 …..Tendulkar 41 in 26 balls RR singh 83 runs 105 v New Zealand Sharjah 1998 …..sachin 40 Azar 32 , Agarkar 35/4109 v Sri Lanka Colombo (RPS) 1998 …..Tendulkar 128 , Agarkar 53/4130*v Sri Lanka Nagpur 1999……. Agarkar 14/3 Ganguly 4/4 seems real single handed sort.183 v Sri Lanka Taunton 1999….. Dravid 145 RR Singh 31/5153*v New Zealand Gwalior 1999 …..seems real single handed sort141 v Pakistan Adelaide 2000 Sachin 41 in 46 balls Dravid 32 Kumble 40/4105*v South Africa Jamshedpur 2000……Match Fixing period no comments141*v South Africa Nairobi 2000……Match Fixing period no comments 117*v England Colombo 2002 …….Sehwag 126112*v Namibia Pietermaritzburg 2003 ….Namibia King107*v Kenya Cape Town 2003 ……prince against Kenya111*v Kenya Durban 2003……Tiger roaring against Kenya111 v Kenya Paarl 2001……Prince of Kenya against Kenya107*v Zimbabwe Bulawayo 1998 Azar 72 ….. King against Zimbabwe139 v Zimbabwe Nairobi 1999 Singh 41 Ramesh 31 ….Dada against Zimbabwe144 v Zimbabwe Ahmedabad 2000 …..A Legend against Zimbabwe135*v Bangladesh Dhaka 2000 …..Ami to Bangla KingSome facts — Was it a great innings?Chaddi Cricketer the Sir Chaddi Bangla Lordie scoring 144 against Australia to save match.Fact is bowlers were Gillespie MacGill ,bracken, Waugh ,KatichNo Macgrath Lee or Warne.1 st day —– Match started late due to rain on ended early bad light. Two rain interruptions in between2 nd day —— Match started late due to bad weather on ended early bad light. Good interruptions in between.3 rd day —— half an hour play due to bad light and rain4 th day —— play ended early Ganguly scored century at tea in conditions it was clear can not be played for result.5 th day —– play started late ended as draw with mutual consent of captains.How this can be match saving innings when everybody knew that there wont be result. Indian first inning ended on fifth dayDid Chaddi Cricketer The Sir Chaddi Bangla Lordie took us to world cup finals? 2003 World CupAgainst major oppositions where opening partnership was spoiled by Chaddi Crickter Ganguly 8 v New Zealand at Paarl 9 v Aus at Centurion 19 v Eng at Durban 0 v Pak at 48 v Srilanka at Johannesburg 3 v NZ at Centurion 24 v Aus at Johannesburg And now look Tiger against minnows 112 not out v Nam at Pietermaritzburg 107 not out v Ken at Cape Town 111 not out v Ken at Durban 24 v Zim at Harare Not out against minnows to swell averages but mediocre batting performance. Now go and find out why we went to Finals who scored there? Keniya went to semis as England and New Zealand surrendered matches and points as protest against Zimbabwe regime for their safety. And those were supposed to be played there in Zimbabwe. and as England and New Zealand surrendered their matches in protest against Zim regime Kenya came to semis. The Chaddi Bangla Lordie The Chaddi Cricketer Ganguly is worser than rookies of 20-20 like Sharma Yusuf Uthappa and Gambhir GangulyChaddi Lordie The Chaddie cricketer Bangla PrinceWadekarCaptained 16 matches Wins 4 quality 0 minnows Losses 4 quality 0 minnowsQuality win loss ratio 50 : 50KapildevCaptained 34 matches Wins 4 quality 0 minnows Losses 7 quality 0 minnowsQuality win loss ratio 36 : 64AzharuddinCaptained 47 matches Wins 13 quality opposition 1 minnows Losses 13 quality 1 minnowsQuality win loss ratio 50 : 50Minnows booster Saurav ChaddopadhyayCaptained 49 matches Wins 12 quality 9 minnows Losses 12 quality 1 minnowsQuality win loss ratio 50 : 50DravidCaptained 25 matches Wins 8 quality 1 minnows Losses 6 quality 0 minnowsQuality win loss ratio 57 : 43Indians solo fighters for team scoring tons while loosing in Test cricketIndia lost 78 tests since 1996Sachin 9 tons solo fights for team Aus 4 SA 2 Eng Pak NZ one eachDravid 1 tons solo fights against Zim oneLaxman 2 tons solo fights against Aus twoSehwag 3 tons solo fights against Aus Pak SA one eachand the last Sir Chaddi Lordie the great Bangla Chaddi Cricketer uted no solo fight.These are either solo or sizable resistances while loosing others have not contrubeted enough so we lost. He scores when others soften balling by their pounding. Then the vulture comes to grab the kill' The Chaddi ' erected to honour Chaddi Lordie The Great Bangla Chaddi CricketerWhen you walk into the Eden Garden Stadium next time, a major landmark of Kolkata, you will certainly not miss 'Chaddi'.Made of 10 mtr cloth bricks, this 1 feet high and 4 ft wide structure, erected just a few steps into the stadium with broken helmet,Arm Guard Chest Guard, abdomen guard, Back Guard, like all protective armoury against medium of higher paced bowlers from world over is a unique tribute to home-born Chaddi cricketer Saurav Ganguly, who made it big hype in world cricket with the help of bangla media and commie politicians..The Chaddi Cricketer The Sir Chaddi Bangla Lordie Ganguly’s is similar story to labour Unionism in Bengal. In a factory when a worker joins- Will not perform- getting paid for no work is his birthright- resorts to unionism if you try to remove him – Starts Cholbe na Korbe naHere also- Dada was not performing as Captain or player- He expects to be treated like a star irrespective of his performance.- When removed from Captaincy, resorted to group alongwith his chamchas. – BoriaBistar zumdar Bhendi TV etc.- Met CPM leaders Torned Speaker Bomnath ..Kharrrrrr…Fakje IPL player- Rubbed Pawar;s … lolNet resultThese commie Bongs have screwed the industry in Bengal and now screwing cricket in Bengal and India. also.Last year DADA and bongs enjoyed SRK literally Honeymoon all Bengal Dada Fake IPL Player were in ecstasy .This year parted away lol.. so calling him names.
Anonymous Post May 14, 2009 6:23 AM, u r a real MF. You have wasted so much time and space just to put nonsense. Lordie is not the best cricketer India has produced but he is certanly one of the best leaders. The team u r seeing today, a lot of credit goes to that man. If u can’t apprecite any one just keep quite.
good job dude….i hope u continue…….but please reveal ur identity……………..
Wow ok so just saw. FYI I didn’t post a single one of those idiotic links to my blog in your comments. Must be some really pissed off person (and I have a feeling I know who) If possible can you delete and block that user from posting using my name? How creepy. Cool blog btwmissmalini
Sujesh RajanMay 14, 2009 at 11:36 pm so it appears like every1’s bashing you on my blogReply missmaliniMay 15, 2009 at 12:45 am · Edit Wow ok so just saw. FYI I didn’t post a single one of those idiotic links to my blog in your comments. Must be some really pissed off person (and I have a feeling I know who) If possible can you delete and block that user from posting using my name? How creepy. Cool blog btw.Also looks like the handy-work of someone who reads us both but likes us (well.. not so much!) My spam filter caught the following supposedly posted by you! (Gosh I hope it wasn’t you!) mentions your gmail ID though.1. “Come read about Appam Chutiya, Aila, Sheikh, et all in my blog, the one and only supremo Fake IPL Player” 2. Hey boys and gals, come n check out my blog. Its fantastic3. Hi all, you should check out my blog there are many visitors there and i get million hits. You all should come post there.
Got this from someone claiming to be you today (which I believed till I realized what was going on!)Transcript:Sujesh Rajanso it appears like every1’s bashing you on my blog MaliniWow ok so just saw. FYI I didn’t post a single one of those idiotic links to my blog in your comments. Must be some really pissed off person (and I have a feeling I know who) If possible can you delete and block that user from posting using my name? How creepy. Cool blog btw.Also looks like the handy-work of someone who reads us both but likes us (well.. not so much!) My spam filter caught the following supposedly posted by you! (Gosh I hope it wasn’t you!) mentions your gmail ID though.1. “Come read about Appam Chutiya, Aila, Sheikh, et all in my blog, the one and only supremo Fake IPL Player”2. Hey boys and gals, come n check out my blog. Its fantastic3. Hi all, you should check out my blog there are many visitors there and i get million hits. You all should come post there.
I got this from someone claiming to be you today (then realized it was probably the same person spamming you.)Sujesh RajanMay 14, 2009 at 11:36 pm so it appears like every1’s bashing you on my blogmissmaliniWow ok so just saw. FYI I didn’t post a single one of those idiotic links to my blog in your comments. Must be some really pissed off person (and I have a feeling I know who) If possible can you delete and block that user from posting using my name? How creepy. Cool blog btw.missmaliniAlso looks like the handy-work of someone who reads us both but likes us (well.. not so much!) My spam filter caught the following supposedly posted by you! (Gosh I hope it wasn’t you!) mentions your gmail ID though. 1. “Come read about Appam Chutiya, Aila, Sheikh, et all in my blog, the one and only supremo Fake IPL Player” 2. Hey boys and gals, come n check out my blog. Its fantastic 3. Hi all, you should check out my blog there are many visitors there and i get million hits. You all should come post there.
Shit. Now I’ve accidentally spammed you because Explorer kept asking me to reenter a password. My bad. Sorry and goodbye!
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governmenteven after the city lost its freedom to theMacedonians. At the very least, it guaranteed intenseinvolvement by the entire population of male citizensin the life of the polis, any one of whom could be partof its political, military, and judicial processes. Democratictheorists have held that this level of participationhelps to account for the extraordinary intellectual andartistic achievements of the Athenians. Furthermore,Athens, its institutions, and its way of life became an inspirationto many throughout the later history of theWest. While it fostered slavery and excluded womenfrom public life, Athens was the first and perhaps thegreatest of the early democracies. DOCUMENT 2.3 The Life of a Greek LandownerHesiod (fl. late eighth century B.C.) was one of the first Greek poetsand a landowner from Boeotia. His Works and Days is a long didacticpoem addressed to his ne’er-do-well brother, Perses. It provides anunforgettable description of rural life in an age when farmers still wentto sea to sell their goods abroad.When the thistle blooms and the chirping cicadasits on trees and pours down shrill songfrom frenziedly quivering wings in the toilsome summerthen goats are fatter than ever and wine is at its bestwomen’s lust knows no bounds and men are all dried up,because the dog star parches their heads and kneesand the heat sears their skin. Then, ah then,I wish you a shady ledge and your choice wine,bread baked in the dusk and mid-August goat milkand meat from a free-roving heifer that has never calved—and from firstling kids. Drink sparkling wine,sitting in the shade with your appetite sated,and face Zephyr’s breeze as it blows from mountain peaks.Pour three measures of water fetched from a clear spring,One that flows unchecked, and a fourth of wine.As soon as mighty Orion rises above the horizonexhort your slaves to thresh Demeter’s holy grainin a windy, well-rounded threshing floor.Measure it first and then store it in bins.But when your grain is tightly stored inside the housethen hire an unmarried worker and look for a femaleservant with no children—nursing women are a burden.Keep a dog with sharp teeth and feed it well,wary of the day-sleepers who might rob you.Bring in a lasting supply of hay and fodderfor your oxen and your mules. Once this is done let yourslaves rest their weary knees and unyoke the oxen.When Orion and the dog star rise to the middle of thesky and rosy-fingered dawn looks upon Arcturus,then Perses, gather your grapes and bring them homeand leave them in the sun for ten days and nights,in the shade for five, and on the sixth daydraw the gift of joyous Dionysos into your vats.When the Pleiades, the Hyades, and mighty Orion set,remember the time has come to plow again—and may the earth nurse for you a full year’s supply,And if longing seizes you for sailing the stormy seas,when the Pleiades flee mighty Orionand plunge into the misty deepand all the gusty winds are raging,then do not take your ship on the wine-dark seabut, as I bid you, remember to work the land.Haul your ship onto land and secure it to the groundwith stones on all sides to stay the blast of rain and wind,and pull the plug to avoid rotting caused by rain water.Store up the tackle compactly inside your houseand neatly fold the sails, the wings of a seafaring ship.Hang your rudder above the fireplaceand wait until the time to sail comes again.Hesiod. Theogony, Works and Days, Shield, ed. and trans. A. N.Athanassakis. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1983. Copyright© 1983 Johns Hopkins University Press. Used by permission.32 Chapter 2The Social and Economic Structuresof Athenian SocietyIn material terms, the Athenian way of life was remarkablysimple. Athenians, like other Greeks, lived onbread, wine, and oil, often garnished with onions orgarlic. Beans and various fruits supplemented this otherwisemeager diet. Meat was expensive and normallyconsumed in small quantities. Even the largest houseswere small by Egyptian or Mesopotamian standards,though their arrangement was similar. Square or rectangularrooms were grouped around a central courtyard,which might contain a private well. Some houses hadsecond stories. Merchants and artisans often conductedtheir business from rooms on the street side of theirdwellings. Housing for the poor, being more cheaplybuilt, has not been well preserved.The poor were numerous. Population estimatesvary, but classical Athens probably had between fortythousand and fifty thousand male citizens in both townand country and at least an equal number of slaves.Most of the latter were either domestic servants and laborersof both sexes or artisans. A large number workedin the mines. As in the rest of the ancient world, slaveryamong the Greeks had begun with the taking of captivesin war, but by the classical age most slaves werebarbarians (that is, non-Greeks) purchased from itineranttraders. No great slave-worked estates existed, andeven the richest citizens seem to have owned only afew. Slave artisans who toiled outside their master’shome were normally paid wages, a fixed portion ofwhich was returned to their owner. This practicetended to depress the pay rates of free workers and ensuredthat many citizens lived no better than the slaves.As in Mesopotamia, killing a slave was a crime, andslaves were guaranteed their freedom (manumission) ifthey could raise their price of purchase.In addition to slaves and free citizens, Athensboasted a large population of foreigners. The city was acommercial center that, though located a few milesfrom the coast, had a bustling port at Piraeus. Unlikesome Greeks, the Athenians welcomed foreign ideas—and capital. Though they could not participate in publiclife or own real estate, foreign residents were welltreated and many became wealthy. They controlledmany aspects of the city’s commerce.The situation of Athenian women, however, is amatter of some controversy. Even women who were citizenshad no political rights, and their judicial rightshad to be exercised for them by others, because theirstatus was that of permanent legal minors. They didhave dowries, which protected them to some extent ifthey were divorced or widowed. But divorce seems tohave been rare. As in other Mediterranean societies,wives usually controlled the management of their husband’shousehold and avoided public life. The Athenians,like most ancient Greeks, made extraordinaryefforts to segregate the sexes. Respectable women ofthe citizen class stayed at home except for occasionalattendance at festivals, sacrifices, or the theater. Eventhen they were accompanied by male relatives, and it isthought that men also did the shopping to keep theirwives and daughters from coming into contact withstrangers. Furthermore, women were expected to avoidcertain areas within the home. The andron, a roomwhere men received their male guests, was strictly offlimitsto women, and in many Greek houses it had aseparate entrance to the street (see illustration 2.4).Underlying these practices was the conviction,voiced frequently by Greek writers, that women wereincapable of controlling their sexuality. A woman suspectedof having a child by someone other than herlawful husband endangered the status of her other children,who might lose their citizenship if challenged incourt by an enemy. For this reason, the head of a familyhad the right to kill any man who seduced his wife,daughter, or any other female relative under his protection.Being nonconsensual, rape was considered less serious.As one offended husband said in a famous case:“The lawgiver prescribed death for adultery because hewho achieves his ends by persuasion thereby corruptsthe mind as well as the body of the woman . . . gains accessto all a man’s possessions, and casts doubt on hischildren’s parentage.” The adulterous woman could notbe killed because she was legally and morally irresponsible.If married, she could be divorced; if single, she ruinedher prospects for finding a husband and spent therest of her life as a virtual prisoner in the house of her fatheror guardian. In spite of these sanctions, adultery maynot have been as uncommon as scholars once believed.By modern standards, the women of middle-andupper-class families were virtual prisoners in any case(see document 2.4). They married early, often at fourteenor fifteen, to men chosen by their families whowere usually far older than themselves, and they almostnever received a formal education. Much of their timewas spent in spinning and sewing because Greek clothingwas simple and could easily be manufactured athome. There were, however, exceptions. As in other societies,a propertied widow might enjoy considerableinfluence and a few upper-class women, such as the sisAncientGreece to the End of the Peloponnesian Wars 33ter of the statesman Cimon, were well educated.From a modern perspective, poor and alien women hadmore interesting lives. Many worked or sold goodsin the marketplace, activities essential to the survivalof their families that guaranteed them a freedom ofmovement unknown to their wealthier sisters. Theprice of that freedom was extreme economic andphysical vulnerability.Segregation of the sexes led to an acceptance ofmale extramarital relations with slave and alien women.Prostitution was common, and at the higher levels ofsociety, courtesans or hetairai were highly valued ascompanions at banquets and other social occasionsfrom which respectable women were excluded. Courtesanswere often highly educated. Some—such as Aspasia,the mistress of the fifth-century statesmanPericles—achieved considerable fame and could holdtheir own in intellectual discourse, but they were stillregarded as prostitutes. Aspasia ended her days as themadam of an Athens brothel.Homosexuality, too, was regarded by manyGreeks as normal, and in some cases praiseworthyIllustration 2.4 Plan of a Typical Greek House. This house was part of aresidential block on the south slope of the Areopagus in Athens.Drawing A shows its location; drawing B, the probable functionof the rooms. In drawing C the shaded area was used by menonly. Note that the men’s and women’s areas of the house hadseparate street entrances (arrows) and that no interior access appearsbetween them.34 Chapter 2(see document 2.5). Soldiers, for example, werethought to fight more bravely when accompanied bytheir male lovers. Many of these relationships wereformed in the gymnasia where men of the citizen classtrained for war or athletics. It was not uncommon for ayouth to become sexually involved with an older manwho then served as his mentor in intellectual as well asathletic matters. Such arrangements were widely accepted.The Greeks, however, did not view homosexualityas an orientation that precluded sexual relationswith women or a conventional family life. Furthermore,homosexual promiscuity could ruin a man’s reputationor lead to exile, and many regarded it as inferior to marriedlove.As in many other cultures, Greek men and womenmay have belonged in effect to separate societies thatmet only in bed. If true, this would also account for thewidespread acceptance of lesbianism. Greek men maynot have cared about sex between women because itdid not raise the issue of inheritance. The term lesbian isderived from the Ionic island of Lesbos, home of Sappho(c. 610–c. 580 B.C.), a woman and the greatest ofGreek lyric poets. Europeans of a later age found hererotic poems to other women scandalous, and theirrenown has perhaps unfairly eclipsed the much widerrange of her work in the minds of all but the most determinedclassicists.Though Athenians, like other Greeks, were remarkablyopen about sexual matters, the assumption shouldnot be made that they abandoned themselves to debauchery.Self-control remained the essence of theideal citizen, and sexual restraint was admired alongwith physical fitness and moderation in the consumptionof food and drink. A man who wasted his wealthand corrupted his body was of no value to the polis, forthe polis was always at risk and demanded nothing lessthan excellence in those who would defend it.Sparta: A Conservative Garrison StateTo moderns, Athens represents the model Greekpolis—free, cultivated, and inquiring—but to the ancients,and to many Athenians, an alternative existed.Far away to the south, in a remote valley of the Peloponnese,lay Sparta. Sparta produced few poets and nophilosophers. Its unwalled capital, built on a raisedmound to keep it from the floodwaters of the river Eurotas,was said to resemble an overgrown village. Therewas no commerce to speak of, and long after otherGreeks had adopted money, Spartans continued to useiron bars as their only currency. Because the Spartans DOCUMENT 2.4 The Role of the Athenian WifeIn this excerpt from Xenophon’s Oeconomicus (HouseholdManagement), Ischomachus tells Socrates how he began totrain his fifteen-year-old bride. His views reflect conventionalAthenian wisdom.Well Socrates, as soon as I had tamed her and shewas relaxed enough to talk, I asked her the followingquestion: “Tell me, my dear,” said I, “do you understandwhy I married you and why your parentsgave you to me? You know as well as I do that neitherof us would have had trouble finding someoneelse to share our beds. But after thinking about itcarefully, it was you I chose and me your parentschose as the best partners we could find for ourhome and children. Now if God sends us children,we shall think about how best to raise them, for weshare an interest in securing the best allies and supportfor our old age.”My wife answered, “But how can I help? Whatam I capable of doing? It is on you that everythingdepends. My duty, my mother said, is to be wellbehaved.”“Oh, by Zeus,” said I, “my father said the sameto me. But the best behavior in a man and womanis that which will keep up their property and increaseit as far as may be done by honest and legalmeans. . . .”“It seems to me that God adapted women’s natureto indoor and man’s to outdoor work. . . . AsNature has entrusted woman with guarding thehousehold supplies, and a timid nature is no disadvantagein such a job, it has endowed women withmore fear than man. It is more proper for a womanto stay in the house than out of doors and less so fora man to be indoors instead of out. . . . You muststay indoors and send out the servants whose workis outside and supervise those who work indoors, receivewhat is brought in, give out what is to bespent, plan ahead for what is to be stored and ensurethat provisions for a year are not used up in amonth. . . . Many of your duties will give you pleasure:for instance, if you teach spinning and weavingto a slave who did not know how to do this whenyou got her, you double your usefulness to yourself.”Xenophon. “Oeconomicus.” In Julia O’Faolain and Lauro Martines,Not in God’s Image: Women in History from the Greeksto the Victorians. London: Temple Smith, 1973.Ancient Greece to the End of the Peloponnesian Wars 35wrote little, they are chiefly known through the writingsof foreign political theorists. By all accounts,Sparta was a grim place: poor, rigidly conservative, anddistinguished only by its magnificent army and by thesingle-minded discipline of its citizens.Sparta was an aristocratic garrison state. The firstSpartans were probably a band of Doric invaders whoestablished their polis on the ruins of an earlier society.They displaced an earlier ruling class that was probablyDorian as well, allowing these perioikoi to retain propertyand personal freedom within their own communities.The original pre-Dorian inhabitants became serfs,or in Spartan terms, helots. This was not unusual, butaround 725 B.C. Sparta conquered the neighboring polisof Messenia and reduced its inhabitants to serfdomas well. Helots outnumbered Spartans by a probable ratioof ten-to-one. In the Second Messenian War (c. 650B.C.) the helots of both communities rose against theirmasters and, with the help of some neighboring cities,came close to destroying the Spartan state. Unless theSpartans were prepared to give up Messenia, survivalwould require complete social reorganization.The Spartans attributed their reorganization to thelegendary figure of Lycurgus, but the new practices almostcertainly evolved over time. The Spartan governmenthad long been a dual monarchy in which twohereditary kings exerted equal powers in war and in religiousmatters. Their influence, however, was severelylimited. A Council of Elders, composed of twenty-eightmen over the age of sixty, advised them and servedas a kind of appellate court in reviewing their legaldecisions. The ephors, a committee of five, ran the DOCUMENT 2.5 Plutarch: Dialogue on LoveDebates over the relative merits of homosexual and heterosexual lovewere commonplace. Plutarch, the author of this one, lived in the firstcentury A.D. He was an avid propagandist for Hellenic values, and hisworks are thought to reflect the attitudes of an age long past. HereProtogenes, who believes that women are incapable of true feeling or intellect,argues that love is almost by definition homosexual. His friendDaphnaeus, who seems to represent Plutarch, vehemently disagrees.“Do you call marriage and the union of man and wifeshameful?” interposed Daphnaeus, “there can be no bondmore sacred.”“Such unions are necessary for the propagation of therace,” said Protogenes, “and so our lawgivers have beencareful to endow them with sanctity and exalt them beforethe populace. But of true Love the women’s apartmenthas no shred. For my part I deny that the word “love” canbe applied to the sentiment you feel for women and girls,no more than flies can be said to ‘love’ milk, or beeshoney, or victualers and cooks can be said to haveamorous feelings for the beeves and fowl they fatten inthe dark. . . .” A noble love which attaches to a youthful spirit issues in excellence upon the path of friendship.From these desires for women, even if they turn outwell, one may enjoy only physical pleasure and the satisfactionof a ripe body.” “If weexamine the truth of the matter, Protogenes, the passionfor boys and for women derives from one and the sameLove, but if you insist on distinguishing between them forargument’s sake, you will find that the Love of boys doesnot comport himself decently; he is like a late issue, bornunseasonably, illegitimate, and shady, who drives out theelder and legitimate love. It was only yesterday, my friend,or the day before, after lads began to strip and bare themselvesfor exercise that it crept surreptitiously into thegymnasia with its allurements and embraces, and then, littleby little, when it had fledged its wings full in thepalaestras, it could no longer be held in check; now itabuses and befouls that noble conjugal Love which assuresimmortality to our mortal kind, for by procreation itrekindles our nature when it is extinguished.“Protogenes denies there is pleasure in the Love ofboys: he does so out of shame and fear. He must havesome decent pretext for attachment to his young beauties,and so he speaks of friendship and excellence. He covershimself with athlete’s dust, takes cold baths, raises his eyebrows,and declares he is chastely philosophizing—tooutward view and because of the law. But when night fallsand all is quiet then ‘sweet is the fruit when the keeper isgone.’ “Plutarch. “Dialogue on Love,” trans. Moses Hadas. In Moses Hadas,ed., On Love, the Family, and the Good Life: Selected Essays of Plutarch,pp. 307–308. Mentor books, 1957.36 Chapter 2government. They conducted foreign policy, watchedover the helots, and could, if necessary, override themilitary decisions of the kings. Both groups wereelected by an assembly composed of all Spartan malesover the age of thirty, the ephors for one-year terms,the councillors for life. Though the assembly voted byacclamation on all important matters, decisions wereusually negotiated in advance and presented at meetingsby the ephors.The system struck other Greeks as old-fashioned,but they admired its effectiveness and stability. The socialsystem over which it presided was far stranger.From the sixth century B.C. onward, everything in theSpartan’s life was subordinated to the security of thepolis (see document 2.6). Infants who appeared physicallyunfit were killed. At seven, males were taken fromtheir mothers and trained to fight, endure pain, and survivewithout supplies in a hostile countryside. Attwenty, they entered a phiditia, a kind of barracks wherethey would live for most of their lives, taking theirmeals in common. Though allowed to marry, youngerSpartans could visit their wives only in secret, and familylife in the ordinary sense was discouraged. Theirmilitary obligation ended only at the age of sixty. Tothe Spartan, eternal vigilance was the price of survival.Foreigners were periodically expelled. Trade and agriculturalwork were forbidden; fitness, discipline, andcourage were prized.The Spartan warrior paid dues to his phiditia fromthe proceeds of land worked by the helots. That workwas supervised to some extent by the Spartan women,who were renowned throughout Greece for their independenceand assertiveness. Though not expected tofight, they received extensive physical training on thetheory that a strong mother produces strong children.Spartan women dressed simply and wore no jewelry. DOCUMENT 2.6 A Spartan ChildhoodThis is one of several descriptions of Spartan values as perceivedby other Greeks, many of whom were both attracted and repelledby them. It is taken from Xenophon’s The Constitution of theLacedaemonians.In other Greek cities, parents who profess to give theirsons the best education place their boys under the careand control of a moral tutor as soon as they can understandwhat is said to them, and send them to a school tolearn letters, music, and the exercises of the wrestlingground. Moreover, they soften the children’s feet by givingthem sandals, and pamper their bodies with changesof clothing; and it is customary to allow them as muchfood as they can eat.Lycurgus, on the contrary, instead of leaving each fatherto appoint a slave to act as tutor, gave the duty ofcontrolling the boys to a member of the class from whichthe highest offices are filled, in fact to the “Warden” as heis called. He gave this person authority to punish them severelyin case of misconduct. He also assigned to him astaff of youths provided with whips to chastise them whennecessary. . . . nstead of softening their feet with sandalshe required them to harden their feet by going withoutshoes. He believed that if this habit were cultivated itwould enable them to climb hills more easily and descendsteep slopes with less danger. nd instead of lettingthem be pampered in the matter of clothing, he introducedthe custom of wearing one garment throughout theyear, believing that they would thus be better prepared toface changes of heat and cold. As to the food, he requiredthe prefect to bring with him such a moderate amount ofit that the boys would never suffer from repletion andwould know what it was to go with their hunger unsatisfied;for he believed that those who underwent this trainingwould be better able to continue working on an emptystomach if necessary, and would be capable of carrying onlonger without extra food. . . .e allowed them to alleviate their hunger by stealingsomething. It was not on account of a difficulty inproviding for them that he encouraged them to get theirfood by cunning. . . . bviously, a man who intends totake to thieving must spend sleepless nights and play thedeceiver and lie in ambush by day, and moreover, if hemeans to make a capture, he must have spies ready. Therecan be no doubt then, that all this education was plannedby him in order to make the boys more resourceful in gettingsupplies and be better fighting men.Xenophon. “The Constitution of the Lacedemonians.” in Scripta Minora.Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,1925.Ancient Greece to the End of the Peloponnesian Wars 37They could hold land in their own right and were capableof dealing with hostile and rebellious helots. Theircourage, like that of the Spartan men, was legendary.In spite of their military virtues, the Spartans werenot an aggressive power until late in their history. Theconstant threat of helot insurrection made them waryof foreign entanglements, and Spartan policy was traditionallydefensive and inward-looking. This changed inthe course of the fifth century B.C. when the Persian invasionand the subsequent expansion of Athens forcedthem to take a more active role. They would eventuallybe drawn into a fatal rivalry with the Athenians, whosearmy was inferior but whose superior navy and greaterwealth made them formidable antagonists. The story ofthose struggles forms the political background of theGreek classical age.The Persian WarThe Greeks developed their unique civilization in largepart because for centuries they were isolated from theturbulent politics of the Asian land mass. That isolationcame to an abrupt end in the Persian War of 499–479B.C. (see map 2.1). The tiny states whose competitionwith one another had long since become traditionalnow faced the greatest military power the world hadyet known.The Persians were an Indo-European people fromthe Iranian highlands who emerged in the sixth centuryB.C. as the dominant power in the vast region betweenMesopotamia and India. By the end of the sixth centuryB.C. the ruling elite had adopted Zoroastrianism, a religionpreached by the prophet and reformer Zoroaster0 100 200 Miles0 100 200 300 KilometersLONGWALLSPHALERUM WALLACROPOLISPIRAEUSCephisusSaronicGulf0 1 2 Miles0 1 2 3 KilometersAthensSicilySyracuse415-413 B.C.The Peloponnesian WarsSparta and its alliesAthens and its alliesPersian EmpireNeutralsPersian War battlesInvasion route ofXerxes’s armyInvasion route ofXerxes’s navyGulf ofCorinthAegeanSeaIonianSeaPropontisS e a o f C r e t eHellespontSpartaCorinthDelphiThermopylae480 B.C.Plataea479 B.C.EretriaSalamis480 B.C. MiletusAthensMarathon490 B.C.LesbosChiosDelosCorcyraEuboeaCreteMelosSamosNaxosPotidaeaAmphipolis422 B.C.SardisAegospotami405 B.C.ThasosPELOPONNESUSATTICAMACEDONIA THRACETHESSALYIONIABOEOTIAASIA MINORMAP 2.1 Greece in the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars 38 Chapter 2(sometimes called Zarathustra). A dualistic system inwhich Ahura Mazda, the god of light, truth, and goodnesscontends eternally with Ahriman, the god of darknessand evil, Zoroastrianism condemned gravenimages and maintained the highest of ethical precepts.Its radical distinction between good and evil would influenceearly Christianity, and Ahriman has been seenby some as a prototype of the Christian Satan.Under Cyrus I “the Great” (c. 585–c. 529 B.C.) thePersians conquered Babylon, together with Egypt,Syria, Palestine, and most of Asia Minor. Persian successwas based largely upon imitating Assyrian militarytactics while reversing the Assyrian policy toward conqueredpeoples. Like the Assyrians, the Persians usedcavalry, many of them armed with bows, to pin downthe enemy’s infantry until their own infantry could destroythem. But Persian government was generally benign.It avoided atrocities, except in cases of outrightrebellion, and asked only that new subjects pay tributeand provide troops for the army. Because local institutionswere typically preserved, many parts of theformer Assyrian Empire welcomed the Persians asliberators.Greek involvement with the Persian Empire beganwhen Cyrus the Great conquered the kingdom of Lydiain 546 B.C. Located in western Asia Minor, Lydia washeavily influenced by Greek culture and famous for itswealth. The Lydians are credited with the invention ofmodern coinage. Under the fabulously wealthy kingCroesus they established a loose dominance over theIonic communities of the western Aegean. When Lydiafell, the Persians assumed control of its Greek dependencies.In 499 B.C. several Ionian states rebelledagainst local rulers backed by Persia and asked mainlandGreeks to help. Sparta, worried about the internalthreat of helot rebellion, refused, but Athens and theIllustration 2.5 Reconstruction of a Greek Trireme from the Era of the PersianWars. The Olympias, shown here coming into port, wasconstructed on the basis of ancient evidence and commissionedinto the Greek navy in 1987. Like the triremes of Themistocle’sday, it is propelled by 170 rowers arranged on three decks. Supplementalpower is provided by square sails rigged on two masts.In this photo the stern where the triarch or commander sat isshown at left. The bow with its formidable ram is visible on theright.Ancient Greece to the End of the Peloponnesian Wars 39Euboean city of Eretria sent twenty-five ships. Athenianrhetoric stressed the city’s ancient and sentimental tiesto Ionia, but the Athenians also feared that if the Persiansgained control over the approaches to the BlackSea their vital supply of imported grain might bethreatened.In a short-lived triumph, the Ionians and their alliesmanaged to burn Sardis, the Lydian capital. Persia soonreestablished control over western Asia Minor and in490 B.C. dispatched a retaliatory expedition againstEretria and Athens. The Persians destroyed Eretria, butAthens fought and defeated them at Marathon. Themarathon as a modern Olympic event commemoratesthe achievement of a courier who brought the news toAthens, twenty-two miles away. This victory, achievedin the absence of the feared Persian cavalry, was importantbecause the Greeks gained confidence in their abilityto defeat an enemy who until then had beenregarded as invincible.That confidence was tested in 480 B.C. when thenew Persian emperor, Xerxes, launched a full-scale invasionof Greece by land and sea. It is a measure of Greekdisunity that only thirty-one cities were prepared to resist.Sparta and Athens took the lead. Athenian politicswere dominated by Themistocles, an advocate ofseapower who used his influence to build a fleet of twohundred triremes in anticipation of a Persian attack.The trireme was a large, complex warship with threeranks of oarsmen and a metal prow for ramming (seeillustration 2.5). Though far superior to earlier galleys,triremes were expensive, and only the discovery of newsilver deposits at Laureion in Attica made their constructionpossible.The ships were needed because Greek defensivestrategy was essentially naval. The main Persian armywas marching south along the European shore aftercrossing the Hellespont from Asia Minor. It was dependentfor its supplies on a fleet of perhaps three hundredtriremes manned by Persia’s Phoenician and Ionian allies.Themistocles hoped to delay the Persian landforces at the narrow pass of Thermopylae whileweather and a proposed naval action at nearby Artemisiumdepleted the Persian fleet (see document 2.7).In spite of a heroic defense coordinated by theSpartans under their king Leonidas, Thermopylae fellwhen the invaders found a way to flank the Spartan position.Offshore, the Greeks fought an indecisive navalbattle with a Persian force that, as Themistocles predicted,had been weakened by a series of earlier storms.These actions provided time for the evacuation ofAthens and for the Greek fleet to take up a position DOCUMENT 2.7 The Spartans at ThermopylaeThe doomed defense of the pass at Thermopylae by a handfulof Spartans and their Thespian allies captured the imaginationof the Greeks and has remained an archetypal story ofheroism in the face of great odds. To the Greeks, it alsoshowed, in dramatic terms, the difference between free Greeksfighting for their native soil and what they saw as servileAsians who had to be driven into battle with whips. This accountis from Herodotus, the great historian of the PersianWar.As the Persian army advanced to the assault, theGreeks under Leonidas, knowing that the fightwould be their last, pressed forward into the widerpart of the pass. . . . Many of the invaders fell; behindthem their company commanders plied theirwhips, driving the men remorselessly on. Manyfell into the sea and were drowned, and still morewere trampled to death by their friends. No onecould count the number of the dead. The Greeks,who knew that the enemy were on their wayround by the mountain track and that death wasinevitable, fought with reckless desperation. . . . Bythis time most of their spears were broken, andthey were killing Persians with their swords.In the course of that fight Leonidas fell, havingfought like a man indeed. Many distinguishedSpartans were killed at his side. . . . There was abitter struggle over the body of Leonidas; fourtimes the Greeks drove the enemy off, and at lastby their valor succeeded in dragging it away. So itwent until the fresh troops with Ephialtes were close at hand; and then when theGreeks knew that they had come, the character ofthe fighting changed. They withdrew again intothe narrow neck of the pass, behind the walls, andtook up a position in a single compact body . . . onthe little hill at the entrance to the pass, where thestone lion in memory of Leonidas stands today.Here they resisted to the last, with their swords ifthey had them, and if not, with their hands andteeth, until the Persians coming on in front overthe ruins of the wall and closing in from behind,finally overwhelmed them.Herodotus. The Histories, pp. 492–493, trans. Aubrey deSélincourt. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1954.40 Chapter 2Heavy tributes swelled the Athenian treasury. Some ofthe conquered land was distributed to poor citizens,and wealthier Athenians acquired property in alliedcities without regard for local law. The true nature ofthe league was revealed when the island of Thasos triedto withdraw from it in 465 B.C. Athens treated the matteras a rebellion and laid siege to the place for twoyears. Corinth, Athen’s chief commercial rival and anally of Sparta, had long argued against what it saw asAthenian imperialism. Now both Delians and Peloponnesiansbegan to fear that Athens sought nothing lessthan political hegemony over the Greek world. As longas Cimon, an admirer of Sparta, controlled Athenianpolicy, every effort was made to avoid open conflictwith the Peloponnesian League. But he, too, was ostracizedin 461 B.C.The removal of Cimon coincided with a further democratizationof Athenian government under the leadershipof Ephialtes and his younger colleague Pericles(c. 495–429 B.C.). The Persian War and its aftermathhad for the first time involved large numbers of poorcitizens in combat, especially in the navy. Their claimsto full participation in civic life could no longer be ignored,and Pericles, who would play a dominant role inAthenian politics for more than thirty years, built hiscareer on changes that further liberalized the constitutionof Cleisthenes.Realizing that most people could not afford toserve the polis, the reformers adopted the novel policyof paying men for public service, including jury duty, ameasure paid for by the wealth accumulated in Cimon’sday. Citizenship, which now became more valuablethan ever, was restricted for the first time to men withtwo citizen parents, but by 450 B.C. Athens had becomea participatory democracy in which every malecitizen could play a role. Some have held that this democratizationcontributed to the tremendous floweringof high culture in the classical or Periclean age (seechapter 3); others that it fueled the increasingly aggressiveand reckless character of Athenian policy. The twoarguments are not incompatible, but war followed almostimmediately upon the downfall of Cimon.In the First Peloponnesian War (460–445 B.C.) theDelian league defeated both the Peloponnesians andthe Persians, but when several allies rebelled against thearrogance of Athenian leadership Pericles agreed to athirty years’ peace. His skills as an orator and popularleader were balanced with prudence. The peace, whichenabled Athens to recover its strength and reorganize itsempire, lasted only fourteen years. In 435 B.C. war brokeout between Corinth and Corcyra. Corcyra was a formersome miles to the east near the island of Salamis. TheAthenians and their allies hoped that by forcing a seabattle in the narrow waters between the island and themainland they could compensate for the greater speedand maneuverability of the Persian fleet.Xerxes’s army entered the deserted city and burnedit. Shortly thereafter half of his fleet was destroyed bythe Greek triremes in the battle of Salamis, one of thegreatest naval engagements in history. As Themistocleshad foreseen, the Persians crowded into the narrowstrait and could not maneuver properly. The Greekships, though slower, carried more fighting men andfound it easy to ram and overwhelm their opponents asthey came in. Salamis was the turning point of the war.Without the support of his fleet, Xerxes returned toPersia, leaving a portion of his army to winter inGreece. The garrison was defeated at Plataea in thesummer of 479 B.C. and fled, never to return. At thesame time, a fleet under Spartan command dislodgedthe enemy from the Ionian coast in the battle ofMycale.The Peloponnesian WarsThe Persian threat had been repelled but not extinguished.Under the direction of Themistocles, the Atheniansbegan to rebuild their city, fortifying its port atPiraeus, and constructing the Long Walls that protectedthe road connecting the two. After Themistocles wasostracized in 472 B.C. (the great enemy of the Persiansended his life as a Persian governor in Asia Minor), thework was continued by his successor, Cimon. Then, inthe winter of 478–477 B.C. Athens, as the leading Greeknaval power, joined with a number of its allies to formthe Delian League, an association dedicated to protectingthe cities of the Aegean from Persians and pirates.Sparta, though it had led the war on land, did not join,preferring instead to concentrate on the helot problemand on strengthening its own Peloponnesian League. By467 B.C. the Athenian navy and its Delian allies had securedthe coasts of Asia Minor and achieved unquestioneddominance at sea. Greece was now divided intotwo increasingly competitive alliance systems.The size of its fleet made Athens the dominantpartner in the Delian League, and though at first theAthenians maintained the rhetoric of friendship, theyused the alliance to further their own purposes. UnderCimon’s leadership, Athens sought to control grain suppliesin the Aegean and to improve its access to ship’stimber and precious metals by seizing new territory.Ancient Greece to the End of the Peloponnesian Wars 41Corinthian colony in the Adriatic that had long beenneutral. The Athenians feared that if its powerful fleet fellinto Corinthian hands, their own naval dominancewould be lost. When they allied themselves with theCorcyrans, Corinth protested to the PeloponnesianLeague, claiming again that the Athenians wanted totalhegemony over all the Greeks. Attempts at negotiationfailed, and in 431 B.C. the Spartans invaded Attica (seemap 2.1).Realizing that the Spartans could not be defeatedon land, Pericles allowed them to occupy the Atheniancountryside. People from the rural demes crowded intothe city. Though the Athenians mounted cavalry raidsagainst Spartan garrisons, the major thrust of their policywas to launch amphibious expeditions againstSparta’s allies. Pericles reasoned that because Athenswas wealthy and its fleet controlled the seas, the citycould survive on imports for up to five years before furthertribute had to be demanded from the empire.Sparta’s Peloponnesian allies were more vulnerable andwould, he thought, sue for peace within three years.Unfortunately, a great plague struck Athens in thesecond year of the war and killed a third of its population.Pericles was driven from office. He was recalledbriefly only to die of the pestilence, and his defensivepolicies were eventually abandoned. The more aggressivestrategy advocated by Cleon, who followed Pericles asleader of the popular faction, at first succeeded. TheAthenians fomented popular revolutions in a number ofcities and supported democratic factions within them,while the Spartans predictably backed their opponents.The Athenians then fortified Pylos on the western coastof Messenia and defeated a Spartan fleet that had beensent to drive them out. More than four hundred Spartanswere isolated on a nearby island. This was a significantportion of Sparta’s fighting elite. Without a navy and facingyet another helot revolt, the Spartans were desperateto recover their men and sued for peace.Once again, the Athenians were undone by overconfidence.Dreaming of total victory, they refused tonegotiate, but their attempts to recapture Megara andBoeotia failed. The Spartan general Brasidas easily detacheda number of cities from their allegiance andended by capturing Amphipolis, the most importantAthenian base in the northwestern Aegean. When reliefefforts failed, it was the Athenian’s turn to ask for atruce.The peace of Nicias (421 B.C.) accomplished little,in part because several important cities on both sides ofthe dispute refused to accept it. Hostilities continued,though Athens and Sparta remained only indirectly involved.Both sides attempted through diplomacy to lureaway each other’s allies. Athens was hampered in its effortsby internal factions and instability. Cleon died inthe attempted relief of Amphipolis. Alcibiades, an unscrupulousyoung aristocrat who had been a pupil ofSocrates, succeeded him as the dominant voice inAthenian politics. Under his guidance, Athens supporteda Persian governor and his son in their revoltagainst the king. Persia, which had remained neutral,now had reason to back Sparta if hostilities resumed.Then in 415 B.C., Alcibiades convinced the Atheniansto mount a great expedition against Sicily. It was abrazen attempt to acquire new resources by broadeningthe scope of the war, and it failed. Syracuse aloneproved to be the equal of Athens in wealth, population,and naval preparedness, and the rest of Sicily backedSyracuse. The Sicilians, with their superior cavalry, disruptedthe Athenian siege and defeated their army onland. In 413 B.C. they destroyed the Athenian fleet inthe city’s harbor. All told, the Athenians lost two hundredships, more than forty-five hundred of their ownmen, and perhaps twenty thousand of their allies.Though Athens rebuilt its fleet and continued thestruggle, its allies deserted one by one. The Spartans,under the command of Lysander and backed by Persianmoney, launched a series of naval campaigns againstthem. Most were unsuccessful, but in 405 B.C. theAthenian fleet was destroyed at Aegospotami andLysander cut off his enemy’s grain supplies by seizingthe Hellespont. Faced with starvation, the Athenianssurrendered unconditionally in 404 B.C.The Peloponnesian Wars revealed the tragic flaw atthe heart of Greek society, a flaw that had been obscuredby the successful war against Persia. The independent,competitive psychology of the polis made itdifficult, if not impossible, for the Greeks to unite or tolive at peace with one another. They had driven off thePersians, but even then much of the Greek world hadsided with the enemy out of rivalry with either Athensor Sparta or, in some cases, with one of their allies. Thefailure of Athens—or Sparta—to forge an effectivePanhellenic alliance created a power vacuum thatwould eventually be filled by the Macedonians, a peoplewho, though related to the Greeks, did not share inthe culture of the polis. As a result, the independence ofthe polis would be gravely compromised. Athens fellunder the control of the Thirty Tyrants, a group of collaboratorswho ruled with Spartan support. The city’sempire disintegrated and its trade diminished, though itremained the cultural heart of the Greek world for centuriesto come. The great struggles of the fifth centuryB.C. may be regarded as the high-water mark of classicalGreek civilization.CHAPTER OUTLINEI. IntroductionII. Art and Literature in Classical GreeceIII. Greek Thought from the Pre-Socraticsto AristotleIV. The Macedonian ConquestsV. The Hellenistic KingdomsA. Hellenistic
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