the peloponnesian war was fought between who?

Question

ancient and medieval history

Answer 1

Atens and Esparta

Answer 2

In 431 BC war broke out again between Athens and Sparta and its allies. The immediate causes of the Peloponnesian War vary from account to acount. However, three causes are fairly consistant among the ancient historians, namely Thucydides and Plutarch. Prior to the war, Corinth and one of its colonies, Corcyra (modern-day Corfu), got into a dispute in which Athens intervened. Soon after, Corinth and Athens argued over control of Potidaea (near modern-day Nea Potidaia), eventually leading to an Athenian siege of the Potidaea. Finally, Athens issued a series of economic decrees known as the "Megarian Decrees" that placed economic sanctions on the Megarian people. Athens was accused by the Peloponnesian allies of violating the Thirty Years Peace through all of the aforementioned actions, and Sparta formally declared war on Athens. Athens and its allies were known as the Delian League while Sparta and its allies were known as the Peloponnesian League.

In 404 BC Athens sued for peace after losing its fleet to the Spartan admiral Lysander, and Sparta dictated a predictably stern settlement: Athens lost her city walls, her fleet, and all of her overseas possessions. The anti-democratic party took power in Athens with Spartan support. The war lasted 27 years, with a truce in the middle.

If you are looking for more information, these are some good books.

Cawkwell, G.L., Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War (London, 1997)
Diodorus Siculus
Hanson, Victor Davis, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War (Random House, 2005) ISBN 1400060958
Hornblower, Simon, The Greek World, 479-323 BCE (2002³) contains three chapters with highly condensed information: "The run-up to the war" (103-110), "The Peloponnesian War" (150-183), and "The effects of the Peloponnesian War" (184-209).
Kagan, Donald:
The Peloponnesian War (Viking Press, 2003) ISBN 0670032115, a one-volume version of his earlier tetralogy
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War (Cornell University Press, 1969) ISBN 0-801-40501-7
The Archidamian War ISBN 0-801-40889-X
The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition ISBN 0-801-41367-2
The Fall of the Athenian Empire ISBN 0-801-41935-2
Kallet, L., Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides. The Sicilian Expedition and its Aftermath (2001 Berkeley) ISBN 0520229843
Krentz, P., The Thirty at Athens (Cornell University Press, 1982) ISBN 0801414504
Plutarch
Strassler, Robert B., ed., The Landmark Thucydides: a Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War (The Free Press, 1996) ISBN 0-684-82815-4
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
Xenophon, Hellenica

Answer 3

Oops, I was thinking about another war. Disregard the below answer.

Troy and the Persians.

It was fought on the plains of Marathon. One runner ran the distance from Marathon to Sparta to ask for assistance, and they turned him down. He ran all the way back to Marathon without rest to warn them there would be no help. He died immediately after delivering his message. Troy went on to win regardless, and the marathon was invented.

Answer 4

the answer have been given pretty well over there but one answer about Marathon. It was noot between troy and greek but the persians and greek

Answer 5

Athens and Sparta.