War was a prominent event in ancient Greece, whether between city states or against foreign powers. However, laws controlled ...

The Peloponnesian War is the name given to the long series of conflicts between Athens and Sparta that lasted from 431 until 404 BC. The reasons for this war are sometimes traced back as far as ...

Sixteen years into the Peloponnesian War, the devastating conflict between the Athenian and Spartan empires during the fifth century BC, an Athenian fleet came to rest outside the tiny island of ...

In comparison, other important cities, like Corinth (with about 10,000 citizens ... almost all of the Peloponnesian peninsula. Yet the vast majority of these people were not citizens at all ...

Sparta and Athens fought a long war, called the Peloponnesian War, from 431 to 404BC. Only the threat of invasion by a foreign enemy made the Greeks forget their quarrels and fight on the same side.