NOUN
- a war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta; 431-404 BC
How To Use Peloponnesian War In A Sentence
- Ever since Thucydides observed that the shift in power from Sparta to Athens was the fundamental cause of the Peloponnesian War, scholars have watched such moments with apprehension.
- Indeed, The Peloponnesian War may well be the seminal work on international relations, even as Thucydides is venerated in the West as the founder of enlightened pragmatism in political discourse. A Historian For Our Time
- After Atheno-Peloponnesian War, the ancient Greek polis declined. But their humanism ideas have passed through the long history and gotten into the tradition of the western humanism.
- Of course, Mr. Kagan relies heavily on Thucydides, as any historian of the Peloponnesian War must, but he doesn't hesitate to take issue with his judgments.
- Pericles' funeral oration for Athenians killed in the Peloponnesian War is a famous example of epideictic oratory
- Ever since Thucydides observed that the shift in power from Sparta to Athens was the fundamental cause of the Peloponnesian War, scholars have watched such moments with apprehension.
- In history, he translated Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War into English, and later wrote his own history of the Long Parliament. Thomas Hobbes
- Two war era refers to period of the Persian War and the Peloponnesian War.
- Work on the temple continued until 432; the Parthenon, then, represents the tangible and visible efflorescence of Athenian imperial power, unencumbered by the depradations of the Peloponnesian War.
- Cleon, the hero of the Peloponnesian war, advocated the public renouncement of friends upon dealing with public affairs -- he paid for it with some revilement by historians. Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Regulator Franchise, or the Alan Blinder Problem
