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But in the interval between the Persian and the Peloponnesian Wars, by their military success and by policy in dealing with the Barbarian, with their own rebellious allies and with the Peloponnesians who came across their path from time to time, the Athenians made immense strides in power.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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She sipped her cappuccino and wiped foam off her lips before perusing the lengthy summaries of recent findings of ancient Greece and the Peloponnesian Wars.
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The islands themselves were still green, basking in the warm waters that eddied and flowed around them as they had since the days of the Peloponnesian Wars.
Nuke Zone Douglass, Keith 1998
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And in his old age, he would sit up there reading the history of the Peloponnesian Wars and Homer and Greek history and relive this empire that he wasn't able quite to replicate for the United States and the Cold War.
The Very Best Men—Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA 1995
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After the Peloponnesian Wars the art of painting seems to have flourished elsewhere than in Athens, owing to the Athenian loss of supremacy.
A Text-Book of the History of Painting John Charles Van Dyke 1894
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Around 400 B.C., the Spartans ended the Peloponnesian Wars by starving the Greeks into submission in their siege of Athens.
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Around 400 B.C., the Spartans ended the Peloponnesian Wars by starving the Greeks into submission in their siege of Athens.
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Peloponnesian Wars - and frequently did in Senate debates.
chron.com Chronicle 2010
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Peloponnesian Wars - and frequently did in Senate debates.
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Peloponnesian Wars - and frequently did in Senate debates.
chron.com Chronicle 2010
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