Peloponnesian War

Peloponnesian War, also called thirty years' war, is the name given to a war of thirty years' duration (431-404 B.C.) between Athens and Sparta, which ended in the supremacy of the latter, till the latter was overthrown at Leuctra by the Thebans under Epaminondas in 371 BC. This war is the subject of the history of Thucydides.

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