Persian War - the Persian Empire versus varying coalitions of Greek city-states. Peloponnesian War - the Athenian Empire versus the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.
Persian War: The Greek cities of Asia Minor provided a third of the Persian navy for the 480 invasion of southern Greece. The Greek city states of central Greece provided a substantial part of the Persian army which fought the southern Greek armies. Peloponnesian War: Athens and the cities in its empire fought the mainly Peloponnesian cities led by Sparta.
Athens and its empire versus the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.
For the Greeks, the Persian War was warding off Persian dominance. The Peloponnesian War was a protracted fight to terminate the Athenian Empire's attempt to dominate the other Greek city-states.
Persian War: a coalition of the southern Greek city-states versus an expeditionary force from Persia with its local Greek allies. Peloponnesian War: the Athenian league/empire versus a mainly Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.
Athens deviously converted the Delian League formed to fight the Persian Empire into an empire of its own. The Athenian Empire then came into conflict with the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta, ending in the disastrous 27-year Peloponnesian War, at the end of which Athens was stripped of its empire.
Persian War 499-449 BCE. Peloponnesian War 431-404 BCE.
It did not. The Persian War finished two decades before the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War.
It allowed Athens to convert the anti-Persian alliance which it headed against the Persian Empire, after peace was arranged, into an empire of its own, which created a standoff withe the Peloponnesian League headed by Sparta. This standoff culminated in the destructive 27-year Peloponnesian War between the two blocs.
Athens establishing an empire, and getting into conflict with the Spartan-led Peloponnesian League in the 27-year destructive Peloponnesian War.
Persian War 499-449 BCCE. Peloponnesian War 431-404 BCE.
Contrast the results of the Persian and Peloponnesian war with regards to Athens Greece