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Fought between the Athenians and Spartans, from 431-404 BCE with a seven-year respite.
Ancient works
[edit]- The History of the Peloponnesian War, epic history by Thucydides
- Hellenica, covering the seven years of war that Thucydides did not, by Xenophon
- Pericles's Funeral Oration, as recounted by Thucydides
- Lysistrata, comedy by Aristophanes
Analytical works
[edit]- Chapter II. Defeat of the Athenians at Syracuse, B.C. 413. as it appeared in The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, 1851 by Edward Shepherd Creasy
- Political Parties in Athens during the Peloponnesian War, 1889 by Leonard Whibley IA
- Sources for Greek History between the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, 1897 by George Francis Hill IA
- Diodorus and the Peloponnesian War, 1899 by Edwin Luther Green IA
- Defeat of the Athenians at Syracuse as it appeared in The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 2, 1905 by Edward Shepherd Creasy
- Aristophanes and the War Party: A Study in the Contemporary Criticism of the Peloponnesian War, 1919 by Gilbert Murray IA
Reference works
[edit]- Agis, as it appeared in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica