Why Did the Greeks Fight the Peloponnesian War?
Why Did the Greeks Fight the Peloponnesian War? Friday July 31, 2009 Section of Map of Greece at the Start of the Peloponnesian War in the Public Domain. From the Perry-Castaeda Library Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd More than 2000 years later we still debate the answer to why the Greeks, who had successfully fought together against the Persians, fought each other at the end of the fifth century B.C. More recently a question about the name of the war has been raised. Why don’t we call it the Athenian-Peloponnesian War in the same way many refer to the early engagements as the Greco-Persian Wars? Much of the reason has to do with our primary so
