The Peloponnesian War lasted 27 years, with a brief truce in the middle. An Athenian General, Thucydides, recorded the war. In Thucydides work, The History of the Peloponnesian War, he puts the cause of the war as "fear of the growth of the power of Athens." Athens at this time was the most powerful of all the city-states, and had the bes
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