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
- Sparta freed many cities, including Athens, from their tyrants, fought bravely for Greek freedom from the Persians, and then claimed to be freeing Greece from Athens at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War.
- 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.
