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*Classical athens was also the leading cultural centre of the greek world.
*These elite citizens had a great deal riding on the performances of their choruses.
*For the sake of their careers poets too wanted to be victorious.
*They were free to express anti-democratic biases and elite preoccupations.
*Athens of the fifth century intensified and transformed the waging of the war ignored some of the traditional customs of battle killed tens of thousand of fellow Greeks , and attacked other democracies.
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