Peloponnesian

/ ˌpɛləpəˈniːʃən /

adjective

1. of or relating to the Peloponnese or its inhabitants

Example Sentences

While Herodotus suggests the workings of fate in the earlier Persian Wars by reporting multiple opinions, Thucydides, likely influenced by Sophist philosophy, stages Athens’s inner conflict during the Peloponnesian War through imaginary dialogues.

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The Incorrigibles were excited to learn she was a history teacher and bombarded her with questions: Was it true that plague had determined the outcome of the Peloponnesian War?

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“The children are much too tired for another outing. I dare not leave them again, and in any case, they have not yet finished their essays on the causes and consequences of the Peloponnesian War.”

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The author begins his survey in 432 B.C., with Sparta and Athens on the cusp of the Peloponnesian War.

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Discovered in a rather remote seaside region of the Peloponnesian peninsula, rather than an established Greek artistic center, the Pylos Combat Agate might have been made in Crete, a prominent trading partner.

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