What were the political, economic, and social reasons for the decline of the city-state of Athens and their allies after achieving so many notable political, economic, and cultural accomplishments during the fifth century B.C.E., the so-called "Golden Age of Greece?" Was that decline inevitable? Why and/or why not?
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