Did the Peloponnesian War influence the fall of Ancient Greece?
Um, the Peloponnesian War WAS the fall of Ancient Greece! The Spartans and Athenians bickered over perceived infringements of the Corinthian empire and various satellite citystates of the Spartan. Over ten years the two powers wore themselves out. In the end Sparta asked the Persian enemy to help her, and due to misreading of augury the Athenian fleet was not in port when Sparta attacked. They won in an underhand manner, but the win was a phyrric victory because the Peloponnese was ruined economically by the war, and the Spartans had sold the Greeks out to the Persians. The Peloponnesian War is told in a first hand mostly eye witness account by an Athenian named Thucydides. His book marks the beginning of objective history-making. Just to be clear: that war WAS the end for Greece. She never regained her former glory, not even to the present day.
