It was between Athens and its empire and the Peloponnesian League headed by Sparta.
The Peloponnesian Wars.
Thucydides and Xenephon.
The Peloponnesian War.The Peloponisian War
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The Persians tried to control the incessant wars between the Greek city-states which spilt over into the Persian Empire, disrupting its peace and prosperity. Many of the Greek cities resisted this, and an alliance led by Sparta which included Athens repelled a Persian invasion. Athens also provided initial support to Sparta when it faced internal revolt, however this ended when Athens began establishing an empire of its own out of the Greek cities liberated from the Persian control.
Athens and Spartans
It was a war between city-states. Athens against Sparta. It weakened Greek civilization.
There were not 36 wars between Athens and Sparta.
Wars don't have roles. They happen and have outcomes. The Peloponnesian War was between the Athenian empire and the Peloponnesian League, which Athens lost and lost its empire.
No , the Peloponnesian War was an ongoing conflict between the Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta lasting from 431 to 404 BC whereas the conflicts between Greece and Persia (known as the Greco-Persian Wars) lasted from 499-449 BC .
Were you talking about the Greek Persian and Peloponnesian Wars? If so, the Persian war was between the invading Persians and the defending Greeks, who formed a league in which the military was led by one of the Spartan kings. (Sparta had two kings at the same time.) In the Peloponnesian War, it was the Delian League (Athens and allies) vs. the Peloponnesian League (Sparta and allies) Sparta ended up beating Athens after destroying their fleet.
It pitted Athens and its Empire against the Peloponnesian League of mostly Peloponnesian Peninsula city-states when Athens tried to extend dominance through the Greek world. Athens lost and was stripped of its empire and became a second rate power. The Greek world was badly weakened by the war and its following wars amongst the Greeks, paving the way for Macedonia to dominate it, under Philip and Alexander.
The Peloponnesian War , 431 to 404 BC , was a series of conflicts between colaitions of city-states - Athens and its allies and Sparta and its allies.
Yes , and Athens exploited her position to the detriment of the other Greek city-states which ultimately led to the Peloponnesian Wars .
Contrast the results of the Persian and Peloponnesian war with regards to Athens greece
It put an end to Persian expansion to the west and led to the contest for power in the Greek world between Athens and its empire and the Spartan-led Peloponnesian League.
The Peloponnesian League defeated the Athenian league, but this solved little other than to strip Athens of excess influence. Inter-Greek wars continued.