Peloponnesian+Wars

431 - 404 B.C.E. Bitter wars between Athens and Sparta for control of the Greek Penninsula. A socratian philosopher named Alcibiads beleived thens should attack the island of Sicily to bring it under their control yet the entire army was destroyed and Athens soon lost the wars and allowed for Spatan hegemony. It set in political decline and allowed for the weakened city-states to be conquered by Philip IIof Macedon who won control in 338 B.C.E.

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