They had little option - after agreeing to peace after the first seven years, Athens ramped up the pressure again and war resumed - either the Peloponnesian League had to give way to an expansionist Athens, or fight it out.
The war was basically between Sparta and its allies and Athens and its empire.
Athens and its allies were defeated by Sparta in the Peloponnesian War.
Sparta and its allies and Athens and its allies/empire.
Athens and its allies/empire and Sparta and its allies.
Athens and its allies and Sparta and its allies.
Athens and its allies and Sparta and its allies.
We call it the Peloponnesian War today because it was between the Athenian Empire and the Peloponnesian League, of which Sparta was a member and leader. At the time, they referred to it the war between Sparta and its allies and Athens and its allies.
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The war between Athens and Sparta was the Peloponnesian War. the ancient Greeks called it the war between Athens and its allies and Sparta and its allies. The word Peloponnesian was used because the alliance led by Sparta against the Athenian empire was the Peloponnesian alliance, as most of the cities were in the Peloponnese Peninsula.
The city-state of Athens and its allies were defeated by Sparta in the Peloponnesian War.
They fought several times, and were war allies on a number of occasions. The principal one was the Peloponnesian War 431-404 BCE, Sparta and its allies versus Athens and its empire.