The Peloponnesian War was the second major conflict between the most powerful Greek City-states Athens and Sparta. Lasting from 431-404 BC‚ the Peloponnesian War was considered by the ancient Greek historian Thucydides‚ to be the greatest disturbance that had ever affected the Greeks. Thucydides was a fifth century BC Athenian historian‚ political philosopher and general. He is considered by many to be the “Father of scientific history” due to his strict guidelines when it came to gathering evidence
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reviewed in his mind the period of the Peloponnesian War and the Fall of Athens." George C. Marshall. The Peloponnesian War that took place from 431 B.C. to 404 B.C.‚ as George C. Marshall said‚ is one of the most important wars in the last 2‚500 years of history. The war changed the expansion of democracy for the rest of history and forced the remaining Greek states to adapt a form of Oligarchy government instead of Democracy. At the end of the Peloponnesian War‚ Sparta’s army defeated the Athenian
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Thucydides‚ a known historian during the time‚ described and analyzed the motives of the infamous Peloponnesian War. The war was between two powerful city-states: Athens and Sparta. The conflict arose due to excessive power. The Athenians were optimistic that they were the driving force that led Greece and all of its city-states. Specifically‚ the historian focuses on the funeral oration presented by Pericles. Pericles‚ ironically‚ doesn’t display sorrow but displays comfort and proud of what each
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Athens based their ability to gather funds from the Delian League as an important part to financing for the war. Naval expeditions could be expensive and Athens would run into problems because they could not afford it. The expedition to Sicily would restrict Athens and their funds and at the battle of Aegospotami with the defeat from Sparta they could no longer afford to rebuild and so the war would come to an end. Athen will use their strong fortification and their navy to import in supplies. This
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In The Peloponnesian War‚ by Thucydides‚ translated by Steven Lattimore‚ Perikles celebrates many aspects of Athenian society in his funeral oration; the form of government‚ the celebrations or events that take place as well as attraction sites‚ and the type of education for children (92‚ 93). Perikles starts off by stating that their form of government‚ a Democracy‚ is different from their neighboring countries and that it is “…being administered in the interest not of the few but the many‚” (92)
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‘The war of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians’. He is the first western historians who strictly chronicled nearly 30 years of war between Athens and Sparta. The Peloponnesian War‚ one the largest conflicts in the Greek City State era. When Thucydides wrote about the war between Athens and Sparta he says: “beginning at the moment that it broke out‚ and believing that it would be a great war and more worthy of relation than any that had preceded it.” According to Thucydides‚ the Peloponnesian War
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In this paper‚ I will discuss the Peloponnesian war as one of the circumstances that led to the end of the Athenian Golden Age. During the height of its glory‚ Athens had successfully incorporated numerous city states into the Delian League which with its dominate control over the league‚ Athens converted the league into the Athenian Empire. “When Athens concluded an alliance with Corcyra in 433‚ and started to besiege Potidaea‚ it threatened the position of Corinth. Sparta also feared that
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During the Greco-Persian Wars‚ Athens and Sparta fought side-by-side as a team to defeat the Persians. However‚ after they defeated the Persians‚ Athens gained even more power‚ which led to conflicts between the prior allies. As a result‚ these two powerful city-states fought one another in the Peloponnesian War. During the late 5th century BCE‚ Thucydides‚ a historian of this time period‚ described the events of the Peloponnesian War in his book History of the Peloponnesian War (5.84-116). In this account
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In History of the Peloponnesian War‚ Thucydides accounts for twenty-one of the twenty-seven years of the Peloponnesian war. This was fought between two major Greek powers‚ The Delian League; led by Athens and the Peloponnesian League; led by Sparta. Unfortunately‚ due to his death‚ Thucydides was unable to finish writing for the full twenty-seven years and his History‚ was left incomplete. Over the course of eight books‚ with a total of twenty-six chapters‚ Thucydides analyses‚ narrates‚ and debates
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Greek city-states fought together in the Greco-Persian war‚ but when the Persians retreated‚ tension rose. Athens gained more power than they needed‚ plunging the two cities into nearly three decades of war. The outcome was devastating. Although Sparta won‚ they were extremely demoralized. Athens was bankrupt and exhausted‚ and neither city regained the military strength they once had. This infamous conflict came to be known as the Peloponnesian War. Sparta was an important part of Greece during the
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