What were the tactics of Athens in the Peloponnesian War?

Answer 1

Athenian aims: 1. Secure their city against land invasion. 2. Maintain control of their empire and continue to extract the revenue from it to pay for their navy and army and food for the city. 3. Use their amphibious forces to maintain control of the seas, to allow supply of the city and to contain and harrass the Spartan-alliance cities.

Answer 2

The Athenians did not win the Trojan War. They are reputed to have provided a contingent to the Greek force which invaded Asia Minor to loot the west coast, and helped in capturing the richest prize of Troy. The leaders of the invasion were Argos and Sparta.

Athens produced a revision of the Iliad poem about the war five hundred years later, faking up a passage which said they had owned the island of Salamis which they were then disputing with their neighbour Megara.

The story of the Trojan Was is a traditional entertainment account sung by the strolling bards for hundreds of years before it was written down. There have been thousands of variations, and we don't know what bit is factual or what is just a good tale or embellishment. But Athens was never the major player.

Answer 3

To bring its people inside the city wall and defend it, to keep collecting taxes from its empire to finance the war, to import food from its empire, and to send out its navy to harass the Peloponnesian League cities.

Answer 4

By developing a navy (with Persian financial support) which could match the Athenian one.

Answer 5

the athenians lost the peloponnesian war. The Spartans won.