destroyed and few out of many returned home.” (Thucydides‚ Peloponnesian War‚ 481) The Sicilian military campaign of Athens proved to be one of the most disastrous military campaigns in ancient times. The loss of thousands of soldiers and sailors‚ hundreds of vessels and vast amounts of money from the treasury reduced tremendously the Athenian ability to wage war; however‚ even in spite of such a loss‚ Athens was still able to prolong the war for nine more years until the Spartans defeated Athens in
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Persian Wars Persians wars were sequences of conflicts contested between Persia and ancient Greece‚ where the two were both ancient civilizations. The Greeks were successions of sovereign city states‚ and the most influential cities were Sparta and Athens. Athens had numerous celebrated philosophers and thinkers along having the privilege of being the first world’s democratic government. The people of Athens mostly depended on trade to obtain resources to be used to run the government. On the other
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beliefs and the need to act. Thucydides believes that fear by the Spartans played an important part in causing the war. Sparta felt threaten by the change in the power balance from Athens due to their imperialistic expansion. Fear can change over to terror‚ which is a more personal form and can change the way people and states think. Effective leaders can combat the fear and terror found in war and conflict. There are five major ways they can do this. (Petersen 321) The leader can use rational discourse
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up as voluntary association of its members against Persia. 2. The conflict between Athens and Sparta had its roots in the Persian Wars earlier in the
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beginning of history to 1750. The Peloponnesian war was one of the first main examples of conflict in history. This war was documented for posterity by a Greek writer named Thucydides (Encyclopædia Britannica 2017). This was started in Ancient Greece between
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In Thucydides’‚ The History of The Peloponnesian War‚ there are many themes that are illustrated throughout various passages. One major theme can be found in book 2‚ chapter 53‚ where Thucydides describes the situation in Athens after it had been stricken with plague during the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides uses his account of the plague to suggest that war is a violent teacher. Among other passages in his work he also suggests that in war‚ no matter how wealthy and prepared the participants may
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The Peloponnesian war was not an easy war at all for both sides. The war began shortly after the war against Persia (“Peloponnesian War” History). After the war with the Persians both Sparta and Athens were beaten up‚ and sort off broken down. Sparta and Athens were two very major powers at the time in Greece (“Peloponnesian War” Ancient History). Everyone new that eventually these two great powers would soon have conflict (‘Peloponnesian War” History). But Throughout the next half century Sparta
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I am gylippus the greatest mothax general that sparta has seen or will ever see. I turned the tides of the war at syracuse and devastated the athenians‚ but i’m getting ahead of myself. This is the beginning of the second peloponnesian war and i am proving my worth as the best general of all time. I have gained experience battling athens before in the archidamian war i have proven my worth as a commander and i will be instrumental in destroying the athenians once and for all. Even as a mere morthax
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tried to act back then during the Peloponnesian War fighting for greed and ambition‚ being withdrawn from their animalistic desires instantly popped off everything they had fought in the past. Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (411 B.C.) ended the Peloponnesian War in his own comedic way with women seducing men to stop the war. The demand for animalistic desires of us‚ humans‚ is emphasized in the play becoming the only method women could use to influence the outcome of war. While living in an environment with
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430 BC‚ a great war had started. In ancient times there were major power houses‚ and they were Sparta and Athens. These two city-states were ruled vastly differently. Sparta was rules by strong militaristic leaders and the only change of power was where the original leader died or was forced out of office. On the contrary‚ Athens was ruled by elected leaders and they were reelected annually. Athens was more centered on education and arts. One of the main causes of the Peloponnesian War was the fact
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