The power of the Athenian led Delian league and to curb the power of Argos and Corinth.
"Sparta formed its Pelopnnesian League, motivated at least partly by Athen's use of Delian League funds to rebuild its Acropolis"
Athens was part of the Delian League and Sparta was part of the Peloponnesian League. -Ava :)
The Peloponnesian Leage, which is the name e have given today to it. The Greeks at the time called it '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.
No, Sparta was not part of the Delian League. The Delian League was a coalition of Greek city-states led by Athens, formed in 478 BCE to continue the fight against Persia after the Persian Wars. Sparta, on the other hand, was a member of the Peloponnesian League, which was a rival alliance to the Delian League. The two leagues eventually clashed in the Peloponnesian War.
megara were on the side of Athens vs. Sparta Argos didn't take part because they didn't want to get into trouble. in this way they were a sort of coward
The Pelponnesian League included all the city states of the Peloponnese peninsula except Argos and the cities of Achaea, a region in the northwest of the peninsula. Some of these cities were Sparta, Corinth, Megara, Elis and Tegea.
Sparta had won the marathon part of the war.
On the southern part of the Peloponnesian Peninsula.
A peninsula forming the southern part of Greece south of the Gulf of Corinth. It was dominated by Sparta until the fourth century B.C..
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.
The Argos allies primarily include the Greek city-states, particularly those that were part of the Peloponnesian League and other regional powers that opposed common enemies like Sparta and Persia. Notably, Argos often allied with Athens during the Peloponnesian War against Sparta. Additionally, throughout its history, Argos formed various alliances with neighboring city-states such as Corinth and Megara, depending on the political landscape of the time.
The war that ended the Golden Age was the Peloponnesian War