Peloponnesian War 3
Athens signed a 30-year truce with Sparta in 446, and was now viewed as the protagonist of democracy. Sparta on the other hand was viewed as the defender of oligarchy. Pretty much the whole Greek world was divided between the two camps. In any given polis, those who wanted oligarchy sought aid from Sparta, while Athenian aid was sought by the democrats. The war was started by a dispute between Corinth (member of Peloponnesian League) and its colony Corcyra (island of NW coast of mod. Greece) in 435. The Corcyraeans naturally invoked the aid of Athens. For a while it was only a local affair, but things escalated until in 432 the Peloponnesian League declared war on Athens. This war is known as the Peloponnesian War (the book confusingly calls it the "Great Peloponnesian War," a purely modern designation), and is particularly famous because the Greek historian Thucydides wrote about it in the first proper work of history in the Western tradition. It was an odd two-fold war. On one hand, one has the Peloponnesian League, which was militarily predominant, but lacked a common fund and had no naval force. On the other hand, Athens had a huge maritime empire which could feed it, but not a sufficient army to defeat the League. So lo
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Approximate Word count = 1482
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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