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Peloponnesian War cultural definition

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.

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