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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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Thucydides was suspicious to Sparta's reasons for disagreement about fortification of Athens. Themistocoles, Athenian general, went to Sparta to silence their doubts. His plan was to hide the truth about the walls as long as Athenians finished them (I, 90)...
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