
Photo: Customers queuing outside a bank, Athens, July 1, 2015. Marios Lolosaz/Xinhua/Sipa USA. Fall 2015 Greece’s European Union creditors showed little sympathy for the country’s financial crisis, blaming a poor national work ethic and insisting on shock therapy. But Germany had its own reasons for pressuring Athens: economic windfalls and political hegemony. In 416 bc, during the Peloponnesian ...