peloponnesian war in English

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the war of 431–404 bc fought between Athens and Sparta with their respective allies, occasioned largely by Spartan opposition to the Delian League. It ended in the total defeat of Athens and the transfer, for a brief period, of the leadership of Greece to Sparta.

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1. During the course of the Peloponnesian War, Alcibiades changed sides on several occasions

2. When Alcibiades was a teenager, during the early years of the Peloponnesian War, Socrates was Alcibiades’ teacher

3. Alcibiades(450 BC-404 BC) a prominent Athenian statesman, orator, and general during the Peloponnesian War

4. Set in the year 431 BC, the plot tells a fictional history of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta.

5. Pericles turned the Delian League into an Athenian empire, and led his countrymen during the first two years of the Peloponnesian War.

6. 18 Greek historian. Considered the greatest historian of antiquity, he wrote a critical history oft he Peloponnesian War that contains the funeral oration of Pericles.

7. A leading exponent of the Athenian "Old Comedy," Aristophanes lived most of his life during the Peloponnesian War against Sparta (431-404)

8. After Atheno-Peloponnesian War, the ancient Greek polis declined. But their humanism ideas have passed through the long history and gotten into the tradition of the western humanism.

9. Alcibiades (or Alkibiades) was a gifted and flamboyant Athenian statesman and general whose shifting of sides during the Peloponnesian War in the 5th century BCE earned him a reputation for cunning and treachery

10. Alcibiades (450–404 BCE) was a controversial politician and warrior in ancient Greece, who switched allegiances between Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BCE) and was eventually lynched by a mob for it.

11. Alcibiades, the son of Cleinias and an Alcmeonid woman named Deinomache, was not yet twenty years old when the Archidamian War (the first phase of the Peloponnesian War) broke out.With his mentor Socrates, he was present when general Phormio besieged Potideia

12. Aristophanes’ most famous treatment of war in general, and of the Peloponnesian War in particular, occurs in his Lysistrata, in which the women on both the Athenian and Spartan sides of the war famously organize a sex strike in order to pressure their husbands to end the conflict.

13. Alcibiades was one such man, a famous orator, a general and a strategist who became one of the most important figures of the Peloponnesian War. This war itself became an event that shook the Greek world of that era, shaping the future of this nation for centuries to come, and sealing the fate of Athens.

14. Athenian: 1 n a resident of Athens Examples: show 4 examples hide 4 examples Alcibiades ancient Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War (circa 450-404 BC) Demosthenes Athenian statesman and orator (circa 385-322 BC) Draco Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC)