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S1E14 - The Aegean Tug-of-War (478 BC to 404 BC)

In this episode, Byzantion stands on the knife-edge, a glittering prize caught in the long, grinding duel between Athens and Sparta. From 478 to 404 BC, fleets thunder up the Bosphorus, rebellions flare in the streets, and the city’s gates swing open to new masters with unnerving regularity. Athenians fortify the harbors; Spartans march through the breaches; and all the while, the people of Byzantion endure the tightening vise of two superpowers fighting for the soul of the Aegean. By the war’s bitter end, the Spartan banner rises again above the walls—but as the smoke of victory drifts over the Golden Horn, a new and unsettling question hangs in the air: how long before the next great power comes knocking at Byzantion’s gates?

Franz Gordon, Hanna Ekström, Anna Dager / Boxes of Memories / courtesy of ⁠www.epidemicsound.com⁠.

Hampus Naeselius / The Thin Line / courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com⁠⁠.