Athens Must Stand

Lysander sent his own embassy to sparta, men who would make his case. Thebes is athens's powerful neighbor to the north,. Its arch rival beside sparta, ramenes. And the athenians are petrified. They were not expecting this. But lysander's position was firm. This was lysander who had personally erased several small athenian allied cities from the map and executed the men enslaving the rest. It seems that before the singer could even finish, the party got more sombre. Then some one said aloud what they were all thinking. It was a song by the athenian playwright euripides, who had