![]() The Athenians had built walls stretching from their seaport to the city of Athens. The Spartan army began by raiding lands within an Athenian allied territory, particularly a region near Athens called Attica. This eventually drew Sparta into the conflict. As a Spartan ally, Corinth resumed hostilities toward Athens when Athens threatened Corinth’s interests in the region surrounding Corcyra. ![]() One of Sparta’s allies, Corinth, had directly engaged the Athenian army. The war featured two periods of combat separated by a six-year truce.Īthens and Sparta had previously quarreled in the decades prior to the war. This war shifted power from Athens to Sparta, making Sparta the most powerful city-state in the region. The Peloponnesian War was a war fought in ancient Greece between Athens and Sparta-the two most powerful city-states in ancient Greece at the time (431 to 405 B.C.E.). ![]()
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