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Peloponnesian War, Peloponnesian War - Athens recovers, Peloponnesian War - Causes of the war, Peloponnesian War - Effects, Peloponnesian War - Lysander triumphs, Peloponnesian War - The Archidamian War, Peloponnesian War - The Peace of Nicias, Peloponnesian War - The Second War, Peloponnesian War - The Sicilian Expedition
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ARTICLES RELATED TO Peloponnesian War - Effects | | | |  Peloponnesian War - Effects: Encyclopedia II - Peloponnesian War - The Archidamian WarSparta and its allies, with the exception of Corinth, were almost exclusively land based powers, able to summon large land armies which were very nearly unbeatable (thanks to the legendary Spartan forces). The Athenian Empire, although based in the peninsula of Attica, spread out across the islands of the Aegean Sea; Athens drew its immense wealth from tribute paid from these islands. Thus, the two ...
See also:Peloponnesian War, Peloponnesian War - Causes of the war, Peloponnesian War - The Archidamian War, Peloponnesian War - The Peace of Nicias, Peloponnesian War - The Sicilian Expedition, Peloponnesian War - The Second War, Peloponnesian War - Athens recovers, Peloponnesian War - Lysander triumphs, Peloponnesian War - Effects Read more here: » Peloponnesian War: Encyclopedia II - Peloponnesian War - The Archidamian War |
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| | | | Peloponnesian War - Effects: Encyclopedia II - Peloponnesian War - The Sicilian Expedition In the 17th year of the war, word came to Athens that one of their distant allies in Sicily was under attack from Syracuse. The people of Syracuse were ethnically Dorian, while the Athenians, and their ally in Sicily, were Ionian. The Athenians felt obliged to assist their ally.
The Athenians people did not act solely from altruism: they held visions of conquering all of Sicily. Syracuse, the principal city of Sicily, was not much smaller than Athens, and conquering all of Sicily would have brought Athens an immense amount of resource ...
See also:Peloponnesian War, Peloponnesian War - Causes of the war, Peloponnesian War - The Archidamian War, Peloponnesian War - The Peace of Nicias, Peloponnesian War - The Sicilian Expedition, Peloponnesian War - The Second War, Peloponnesian War - Athens recovers, Peloponnesian War - Lysander triumphs, Peloponnesian War - Effects Read more here: » Peloponnesian War: Encyclopedia II - Peloponnesian War - The Sicilian Expedition |
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| | | | Peloponnesian War - Effects: Encyclopedia II - Peloponnesian War - Causes of the war According to Thucydides, the cause of the war was the "fear of the growth of the power of Athens" throughout the middle of the 5th century BC. After a coalition of Greek states thwarted an attempted invasion of the Greek mainland by the Persian empire, several of those states formed the Delian league in 478 BC in order to create and fund a standing navy which could be used against the Persians in areas under their control. Athens, the largest member of the league and the major Greek naval power, took the leadership of the league and appointe ...
See also:Peloponnesian War, Peloponnesian War - Causes of the war, Peloponnesian War - The Archidamian War, Peloponnesian War - The Peace of Nicias, Peloponnesian War - The Sicilian Expedition, Peloponnesian War - The Second War, Peloponnesian War - Athens recovers, Peloponnesian War - Lysander triumphs, Peloponnesian War - Effects Read more here: » Peloponnesian War: Encyclopedia II - Peloponnesian War - Causes of the war |
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