How to use in-sentence of “peloponnesian”:
+ Thucydides, “History of the Peloponnesian War”, 1.22.1.
+ The “History” explains that the cause of the Peloponnesian War was the “growth in power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta”.
+ The Peloponnesian War was an Ancient GreeceAncient Greek military conflict, fought by Athens and its allies, against the “Peloponnesian League”, led by Sparta.
+ At the end of the Peloponnesian War Corinth joined Athens in the Corinthian War against Sparta.
+ Pericles turned the Delian League into an Athenian empire and led his countrymen during the first two years of the Peloponnesian War.
+ During the course of the Peloponnesian War, Alcibiades changed sides on several occasions.
+ However, in 395 BC Corinth switched back to the Peloponnesian League and joined Sparta to attack Athens.
Example sentences of “peloponnesian”:
+ At first it was a member of the Peloponnesian League.
+ By the end of the 5th century BC, around the time of the Peloponnesian War, the "skênê", the back wall, was two stories high.
+ At first it was a member of the Peloponnesian League.
+ By the end of the 5th century BC, around the time of the Peloponnesian War, the “skênê”, the back wall, was two stories high.
+ The power of Athens declined following its defeat in the Peloponnesian War against the Spartans.
+ This colony was one of the causes for beginning the Peloponnesian War.
+ He was the last famous member of his mother’s aristocratic family, which fell from power after the Peloponnesian War.
+ During the Peloponnesian war in Ancient Greece, a talent was the amount of silver needed to pay the crew of a trireme for one month.
+ Sparta eventually won the Peloponnesian War.
+ Herodotus and Thucydides wrote the history of the Persian war and Peloponnesian wars.
+ Their rival was the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.
+ This, and Athens’s heavy-handed control of the League, started the Peloponnesian War.
+ Thucydides, “History of the Peloponnesian War”, 2.34-2.46.
+ He lived between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars.
+ Thucydides, “History of the Peloponnesian War”, 2.34.1-6.
+ The Peloponnesian War reshaped the Ancient Greek world.
+ Themistocles, “History of the Peloponnesian War” XIV Armed soldiers were used on Greek ships to get on board enemy ships to fight their crews.
+ Pericles’ Funeral Oration is a famous speech from Thucydides’ “History of the Peloponnesian War”.
+ The “History” concentrates on the military aspects of the Peloponnesian War, but it uses these events as a medium to suggest several other themes as well, for instance to show degenerative effects of war on humanity itself.