Hellenistic-
it is a word that is pertaining to the Greeks after the time
of Alexander the great. it also relates to
the architecture of Greece between the 3rd century and the
1st century Bc. and has to do with the fine arts style of Alexander the
great.
Athens only military aspect was its navy, the Athenian army where no
match for the Spartans. When Sparta destroyed the Athenian fleet in the
attack on Syracuse the war was basically over. Athens, the strongest
city-state in Greece prior to the war's beginning, while Sparta became established as
the leading power of Greece. The economic costs of the war were felt all
across Greece; poverty became widespread in the Peloponnese, while
Athens found itself completely devastated, and never regained its
prewar prosperity.
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