he saved Mégara from Athenian attack, and then conducted an able campaign in Thrace, capturing Amphipolis and other cities and greatly weakening the Athenian cause through his military successes 422 B.C., Spartan general in the Peloponnesian War. Click the link for more information., won a great victory at Sphacteria (now Sfaktiriá) and refused a Spartan bid for peace. He was antagonistic to Sparta and successfully opposed (425 B.C.
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He began his political career with a series of relentless attacks on Pericles. The son of a tanner, he had little education nevertheless, he was a gifted speaker. Meanwhile a plague (perhaps bubonic) wiped out (430–428) probably a quarter of the population of Athens, and Pericles died. Pericles brought the rural population within the walls, and the Athenian fleet began raids, winning victories off Naupactus (now Návpaktos). Click the link for more information. by a Spartan army in 431. According to Greek legend, the four Attic tribes were founded by Ion in later legend Theseus combined 12 townships into a single state. , region of ancient Greece, a triangular area at the eastern end of central Greece, around Athens. The first important action was the initial invasion of Attica Attica Click the link for more information. (432). It was a Corinthian colony (c.600 B.C.) but joined the Athenian-dominated Delian League. , ancient city, NE Greece, at the narrowest point of the Pallene (now Kassándra) peninsula in Chalcidice (now Khalkidhikí). 104,781), 229 sq mi (593 sq km), NW Greece, in the Ionian Sea, the second largest of the Ionian Islands, separated by a narrow channel from the Albanian and Greek coasts. Click the link for more information. over Corcyra (now Kérkira Kérkira It is a port and major transportation center trading in olives, tobacco, raisins, and wine.
27,412), capital of Corinth prefecture, S Greece, in the NE Peloponnesus, on the Gulf of Corinth. The war began after sharp contests between Athens and Corinth Corinth
The Spartans, who favored oligarchies like their own, resented and feared the imperialism and cultural ascendancy of Athens.
Click the link for more information. (from 445 B.C.) had become a bastion of Greek democracy, with a foreign policy of regularly intervening to help local democrats. He first came to prominence as an opponent of the Areopagus (462) and as one of the prosecutors of Cimon, whom he replaced in influence. He was a member of the Alcmaeonidae family through his mother, a niece of Cleisthenes. The rivalry between Athens' maritime domain and Sparta's land empire was of long standing. Sparta's government was headed by two hereditary kings furnished by two families they were titular leaders in battle and in religion. , city of ancient Greece, capital of Laconia, on the Eurotas (Evrótas) River in the Peloponnesus. Click the link for more information. and Sparta Sparta 3,072,922), capital of Greece, E central Greece, on the plain of Attica, between the Kifisós and Ilissus rivers, near the Saronic Gulf. Peloponnesian War (pĕl`əpənē`zhən), 431–404 B.C., decisive struggle in ancient Greece between Athens Athens
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