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According to Thucydides, when Sparta heard about rebuilding, she immediately sent an embassy to the Athens to ascertain the truth. Sparta maintained that no city-state should have the walls, for it could be dangerous in case of a new invasion. The possible invaders could use fortified cities as their military bases, as the Persians did during just finished war (I, 90-92)...
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Sparta maintained that no city-state should have the walls, for it could be dangerous in case of a new invasion. The possible invaders could use fortified cities as their military bases, as the Persians did during just finished war (I, 90-92). Thucydides was suspicious to Sparta's reasons for disagreement about fortification of Athens...
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