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  The Spartan king, Archidamus II, ruled from about 469-427 BCE and was the reigning Eurypontid monarch of Sparta at the start of the Peloponnesian...

  Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE) "'Slow' and 'cautious' can equally well be 'wise' and 'sensible.' Certainly it is because we possess these qualities that we are...

  Thucydides (460-400 BCE) "The best and safest thing of all is when a large force is so well disciplined that it seems to be acting...

  Athens and Sparta, the two most prominent powers in Greece, were already struggling to coexist years before the Greco-Persian Wars ended around 449-448 BCE....