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The 46 pages that link to Peloponnesian War, each with the reason it gives.

• PlatoRelated: The war and Athens’ defeat shaped the unstable political climate Plato inherited.

• ThucydidesNarrower topic: It is the central conflict Thucydides narrated and analyzed.

• Greco-Persian WarsRelated: The power imbalance that followed the Persian conflict contributed to Greek rivalry.

• Delian LeagueRelated: The empire built from the league became a central source of Spartan opposition and wartime strategy.

• Arms raceRelated: Thucydides' explanation of its causes has shaped modern thinking about rivalry and buildup.

• AthensRelated: The war ended Athenian imperial dominance and exposed the costs of rivalry among Greek powers.

• SpartaRelated: Sparta’s victory made it the dominant Greek power, but its supremacy proved short-lived.

• AristophanesRelated: Several surviving comedies respond directly to the war and its effects on Athenian life.

• Athenian EmpireRelated: Conflict with Sparta destroyed Athenian dominance and ended the empire.

• PericlesNarrower topic: Pericles’ strategy shaped the war’s opening phase, while his death left Athens without its leading statesman.

• SophoclesRelated: The war began during Sophocles’ later career and transformed the city where his plays were staged.

• Ancient GreeceBroader topic: The war weakened leading poleis and reshaped the balance of power.

• Ancient Greek historiographyBroader topic: Thucydides' history makes the war a central case for examining power and political decision-making.

• Realism (international relations)Broader topic: Thucydides’ account of the conflict is a classic case for realist analysis of fear and power shifts.

• WarBroader topic: Thucydides’ account makes this war a foundational case of rivalry between political communities.

• Olympic truceRelated: The war continued despite the festival tradition, exposing the truce’s limited reach.

• TriremeRelated: Athens relied on trireme fleets to sustain its empire and wage war across the Aegean.

• Peloponnesian LeagueBroader topic: The league’s coalition fought Athens in the defining war of its power.

• Trial of SocratesRelated: The war’s defeat and aftermath heightened political anxiety before Socrates’ prosecution.

• Battle of AegospotamiNarrower topic: The battle ended the war by making continued Athenian resistance untenable.

• Classical AthensRelated: The war exhausted Athens and ended its fifth-century imperial dominance.

• Preventive warRelated: Thucydides' account presents Spartan fear of growing Athenian power as a cause of war.

• Sicilian ExpeditionNarrower topic: The Sicilian campaign was a major Athenian operation within this wider war.

• Spartan hegemonyNarrower topic: Its outcome removed Athens as Sparta’s principal rival and opened the way to Spartan dominance.

• AlcibiadesNarrower topic: The war created the crises in which Alcibiades repeatedly changed sides and returned to power.

• Athenian navyRelated: The conflict tested the fleet against Sparta and ended with Athens’s naval defeat.

• Classical GreeceRelated: The war's outcome ended Athenian dominance and destabilized the Greek world.

• LysanderNarrower topic: Lysander’s campaigns brought the long war to its conclusion.

• IsocratesRelated: Its aftermath shaped Isocrates’ calls for Greek unity and renewed political leadership.

• Thirty TyrantsNarrower topic: The Thirty came to power immediately after Athens lost this war.

• Greek city-stateRelated: The war exposed the costs of rivalry between powerful Greek city-states.

• Corinthian WarNarrower topic: Its end left Sparta dominant, setting up resistance to Spartan rule across Greece.

• Greek triremeRelated: Rival fleets of triremes supported raids, blockades, and major naval engagements.

• Thucydides TrapBroader topic: Thucydides used the conflict to illustrate how Athenian growth frightened Sparta.

• Ancient warfareBroader topic: Its shifting strategies show how naval power, sieges, and attrition could interact.

• Battle of CunaxaNarrower topic: Its aftermath created Greek veterans and Persian-Spartan ties that Cyrus could enlist.

• First Peloponnesian WarCompared with: Unlike the earlier conflict, this war ended in Sparta’s victory and Athens’s surrender.

• Isthmus of CorinthRelated: Control of routes through Corinth and the isthmus mattered to movement between the rival regions.

• Sicilian WarsCompared with: Athens' Sicilian expedition was part of this Greek civil war, not a Carthaginian campaign.

• Odrysian kingdomRelated: Sitalces entered the conflict as Athens's ally and led a major campaign in Macedonia.

• Battle of ArginusaeNarrower topic: Arginusae was a late Athenian victory in this prolonged conflict.

• Athens in the 5th century BCRelated: The war exhausted Athens and ended its empire and wartime ascendancy.

• History of AthensRelated: Athens’s defeat ended its empire and weakened its power in Greece.

• History of GreeceBroader topic: Its outcome ended Athenian dominance and destabilized the classical Greek city-states.

• Mary RenaultRelated: The war forms the political backdrop to The Last of the Wine.

• PlatoRelated: Plato’s political thought took shape amid Athens’s defeat and civic instability.