Peloponnesian War

noun

1. a war between Athens and Sparta, 431–404 b.c., that resulted in the transfer of hegemony in Greece from Athens to Sparta.

Peloponnesian War

noun

1. a war fought for supremacy in Greece from 431 to 404 _bc , in which Athens and her allies were defeated by the league centred on Sparta

Peloponnesian War

1. A long war between the Greek city-states of Athens (see also Athens) and Sparta in the fifth century b.c. Sparta won the war.

The historian Thucydides fought in the Peloponnesian War and later wrote a remarkable history about it.

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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Stop and chat with Paul, in other words, and you may walk away bruised of ego, wrinkled of nose and renewed in your determination to know as little as possible about the Peloponnesian War.

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