The Peloponnesian War is the name given to the long series of conflicts between Athens and Sparta that lasted from 431 until 404 BC. The reasons for this war are sometimes traced back as far as ...

Sparta won the Peloponnesian War, the 27-year-long conflict Athenian expansion brought on between 431-404 BCE, and the only event that finally dragged the Spartans into prolonged military action.

Sparta had a highly unusual system of government ... leaving them free to pursue to the arts of war. Beneath this highest class was a middle class, called the Perioeci. Made up of a farmers ...

César Fornis Vaquero The Spartans’ reputation grew during the Greco-Persian wars ... ancient Sparta are seen here, with the snow-capped peaks of the Taygetos Mountains in the background.

It all started so simply. In the original God of War, you piloted the wrathful, ashen-skinned Spartan Kratos as he tore through beasts and gods ripped from the pages of Edith Hamilton’s classic ...

It was made up of lots of smaller states. These states were always squabbling and often went to war. Sparta and Athens fought a long war, called the Peloponnesian War, from 431 to 404BC.