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An 8 page war which examines the Peloponnesian War and focuses on the role of Athens as the source of the war. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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were both incredibly powerful entities, the Spartans and the Athenians, and such conditions often spell ultimate disaster or warfare for one or the other as each desired to push their
own ideals and essentially possess the most power and the most influence in the world at the time. As is often the case with super powers, such as these, there
was no way out aside from war as it involved the two self-focused cultures. However, in most analyses it is the Athenians who were ultimately responsible for creating the war.
The following paper examines Athens and the encroaching Peloponnesian War. Athens and the Peloponnesian War As mentioned previously, and as indicated
by one author, "The Golden Age of Greece was short lived. Athens and Sparta were both powerful poli, and each wanted to spread their way of life" (Dowling, 2006). However,
there was far more to it than this in terms of specifics. While Athens and Sparta were both entities that desired their own power, it seems that perhaps Athens felt
more threatened, or perhaps felt that they had less power and were irate at having to agree to terms laid down by Sparta. The historian Thucydides states the following in
relationship to one complaint and event prior to the war: "the complaint of Corinth was that her colony of Potidaea, and Corinthian and Peloponnesian citizens within it, were being besieged;
that of Athens against the Peloponnesians that they had incited a town of hers, a member of her alliance and a contributor to her revenue, to revolt, and had come
and were openly fighting against her on the side of the Potidaeans" (Thucydides I iii). Up until then Sparta had generally
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