After the war, Athens turned the Greek alliance it had led against Persia into an empire and used the League funds to beautify its city and spend up big, attracting the arts, architecture, science etc. It also supported a large fleet with which it tried to dominate the Greek east, overstepped itself and lost bost the Pelopommesian War, its empire and the revenue which had subsidised its Golden Age.

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