Sparta votes for war with Athens
432 BCE · Event
Pressed by Corinth and alarmed by fifty years of Athenian growth, the Spartan assembly votes that Athens has broken the peace. Thucydides gives the real reason in one line: the growth of Athenian power, and the fear it inspired in Sparta. The greatest war of the Greek world now needs only a spark.
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