How long did the Peloponnesian war continue?????

Question

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Answer 1

It broke out in 431, ended in 404, but there was also a period of truce in between - the Peace of Nicias - from 422 to 413. This peace separates what historians call the Archidamian War (named for the king that led Sparta at fist, Archidamos), and the Dekeleian War (so called because the Spartans had a permanent base in Attica at Dekeleia). So, there were 18 years of actual fighting between Athens and Sparta.

Some historians don't like to separate the traditional idea of what the Peloponnesian War was (that is, Thucydides's idea of what it was) from the so-called "First Peloponnesian War" that took place from 461-446 and ended with the Thirty Years' Truce (which lasted nowhere near thirty years). The fact that we consider the fighting that took place from 431-404 to be the "Peloponnesian War" is almost solely because the fighting from 431 to 404 is the content of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War.

So, short answer, 27 years. Long answer, Athens and Sparta were at war on and off for 57 years (officially fighting for 33 of them).

Answer 2

431–404 BC
27 years

Answer 3

which one ? the first one ( 460 - 445 b.c. ) and the other one in 1808 -14