Peloponnesian War
event · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
the war · Peloponnesian war · the twenty-eight years' war · the war against the Peloponnesians
spoken of as
1 expressionThe Peloponnesian War“its conclusion”1 mention
Hellenica (Greek)
it was in Endius’ term that Lysander sailed home after performing the deeds above described.
in the texts
Constitution of the Athenians
War between Athens and Sparta whose course drives most of the constitutional upheavals described
In the forty-ninth year after the sea-battle at Salamis, in the archonship of Pythodorus, the war against the Peloponnesians broke out, during which the people, shut up in the town and accustomed to earn pay on campaign, partly willingly and partly unwillingly chose to administer the constitution themselves.
But after the disaster in Sicily, when the affairs of the Lacedaemonians became stronger through the alliance with the King, they were compelled to alter the democracy and establish the constitution of the Four Hundred—Melobius having spoken the speech before the decree, and Pythodorus of Anaphlystus having drafted the proposal, the many being most readily persuaded because they thought the King w …
The Rights of War and Peace
War between Sparta and Athens, cited via Thucydides as an example distinguishing real cause from ostensible occasion.
The real causes assigned by Thucydides for the Peloponnesian war, were the jealousies entertained by the Lacedaemonians of the then growing power of the Athenians, though the quarrels of the Corcyreans, Potidaens, and other secondary states were made the ostensible reasons.
Antidosis
The war in which Isocrates says his patrimony was lost.
For when I was beginning to repair my own fortunes after I had lost in the Peloponnesian War the patrimony which remained to me from what my father had spent partly in rendering himself serviceable to the state and partly in educating me with such care that I was more conspicuous then and more distinguished among the youth of my own age and among my fellow-students than I am now among my fellow-ci …
Hellenica
The long war between Athens and Sparta, whose duration is twice noted in this window and which formally concludes with Lysander's return home.
it was in Endius’ term that Lysander sailed home after performing the deeds above described.
nevertheless, they put the ships under the command of Lysander—the war having now lasted twenty-five years.
All these things he delivered over to the Lacedaemonians at the close of the summer—with which ended the twenty-eight years and six months of the war, during which years the eponymous ephors were the following: