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1. Most Peloponnesians probably welcomed the excuse for not sending their main armies north; they had never wanted to.

2. Leonidas ordered away his Peloponnesian allies; good troops, who could fight again.

3. To Athens, the Peloponnesians offered economic assistance to maintain their destitute people, and even a new home within the Peloponnese.

4. In his History of the Peloponnesian War, to be sure, he refrains from offering a picture of the best regime.

5. Now at the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War Socrates was just under 40 years of age.

6. View of the Peloponnesian Peninsula, where customs clearance is a hot spring?

7. In the Peloponnesian War broke out in 5 th B.C.

8. There's a striking moment at the start of Thucydides' "Peloponnesian War" when he surveys Greek history up to then. The striking part is, it only lasts a couple of pages.

9. History of the Peloponnesian War is a great historical work that Thucydides devoted his lifetime, it contains a large number of informative speeches.

10. The Peloponnesian conflict of the fifth century against Sparta and her allies was criticised by many contemporaries as being "without just cause".

11. View of Peloponnesian Peninsula, where customs clearance is a hot spring?

12. Thucydides famously attributed the Peloponnesian War to the rise in power of Athens and the fear it created in Sparta.

13. Thucydides, in the History of the Peloponnesian War wrote, "it is a habit of mankind ... to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not fancy."

14. Ever since Sparta led the Peloponnesian League against Athens, they say, declining powers have failed to give way fast enough to satisfy rising powers.

15. That, anyway, is the thinking of some modern medical students who find a lot has changed since the Peloponnesian war.

16. Boiotia itself was wavering, knowing that there was a strong current of opinion among the Peloponnesians in favour of defending only their peninsula.

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17. This is diplomatic language for joint hegemony and a proposed sellout of the Peloponnesian League.

18. As we shall see, one of the effects of the Peloponnesian War was to intensify political activity and pamphleteering.

19. Plato was born into an aristocratic Athenian family, and he grew up during the Peloponnesian War.

20. Sir Harold, I think it was Alcibiades in the Peloponnesian War.

21. Firstly, Aristophanes advanced his opinions on the cause, the trend and the nature of Peloponnesian war and peace appeal.

22. Some of you will know that that trial follows very quickly upon the heals of the famous Peloponnesian War.

23. Socrates (c. 470–399 B. C. ), who was also a soldier during the Peloponnesian War and a stonemason after, was renowned as a philosopher and educator.

24. Asa pupil at St Paul's School in London, boys of my generation wererequired to read and translate Thucydides' account - in the ancientGreek - of the Peloponnesian War.

25. In Chapter three I analyze the Graeco-Persian relations after the Peloponnesian War.

26. Work on the temple continued until 432; the Parthenon, then, represents the tangible and visible efflorescence of Athenian imperial power, unencumbered by the depradations of the Peloponnesian War.

27. An Orthodox priest surveys the remains of his church in Zacharo on the Peloponnesian Peninsula, Greece.

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

29. A mere three decades after the end of the Peloponnesian War, a Theban army under Epaminondas crushed the Spartans, but Greece was so weakened that it lay at the mercy of Persia and the Macedonians.

30. Ever since Thucydides observed that the shift in power from Sparta to Athens was the fundamental cause of the Peloponnesian War, scholars have watched such moments with apprehension.