Peloponnesian is an English word with synonyms like peninsula. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Peloponnesian meaning
Of or pertaining to the Peloponnesus, or southern peninsula of Greece.
Synonyms of Peloponnesian
Using Peloponnesian
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or pertaining to the Peloponnesus, or southern peninsula of Greece.
- Useful related words include: peninsula.
- In the example corpus, peloponnesian often appears in combinations such as: the peloponnesian, peloponnesian war, peloponnesian league.
Context around Peloponnesian
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Peloponnesian
- In this selection, "peloponnesian" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, wholly, first, larger, war, league and wars stand out and add context to how "peloponnesian" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include during the peloponnesian war and about the peloponnesian wars thousands. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "peloponnesian" sits close to words such as abbe, abeyance and abp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with peloponnesian
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
As a result, despite fighting for another decade, Greece ultimately lost the Peloponnesian War. (14 words)
Sparta withdrew from the Hellenic League, reforming the Peloponnesian League with its original allies. (14 words)
Kagan, The Peloponnesian War, 23–24 The more immediate events that led to war involved Athens and Corinth. (18 words)
The play is named after its main character, Lysistrata, who in an attempt to end the Peloponnesian War between Greeks city states encourages women in the warring cities to deny s-ex to all the men in those cities. (39 words)
As early as 426 BC the Greek historian Thucydides inquired in his book History of the Peloponnesian War about the causes of tsunami, and was the first to argue that ocean earthquakes must be the cause. (36 words)
However, this treatise makes evident that anti-democratic sentiments were extant in Athens in the late 5th century B.C. and were only increased after its shortcomings were exploited and made apparent during the Peloponnesian War. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Thus, the Peloponnesian League was not an "alliance" in the strictest sense of the word (nor was it wholly Peloponnesian for the entirety of its existence).
As a result, despite fighting for another decade, Greece ultimately lost the Peloponnesian War.
The play is named after its main character, Lysistrata, who in an attempt to end the Peloponnesian War between Greeks city states encourages women in the warring cities to deny s-ex to all the men in those cities.
With the exception of Sparta’s triumph over Athens in the Peloponnesian War, the democracies prevailed in these landmark confrontations.
The Greek historian Thucydides, about the Peloponnesian Wars thousands of years ago, associated the gutting of language with the dissolution of the state.
A further source of provocation was an Athenian decree, issued in 433/2 BC, imposing stringent trade sanctions on Megarian citizens (once more a Spartan ally after the conclusion of the First Peloponnesian War).
As early as 426 BC the Greek historian Thucydides inquired in his book History of the Peloponnesian War about the causes of tsunami, and was the first to argue that ocean earthquakes must be the cause.
By the terms of the Thirty Years' Peace of 446-445 BC Megara was returned to the Peloponnesian League.
D. Kagan, The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, 79 After all, Cimon finally accepted the new democracy and did not oppose the citizenship law, after he returned from exile in 451 BC.
D. Kagan, The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, 83 His strategy is said to have been "inherently unpopular", but Pericles managed to persuade the Athenian public to follow it.
Hanson (2006), p. 252 In the Athenian fleet, during the Peloponnesian War, there are a few variations to the typical crew layout of a trireme.
His critical use of sources, inclusion of documents, and laborious research made his History of the Peloponnesian War a significant influence on later generations of historians.
However, no details from this period of its history are known, until the great Athenian expedition to Sicily (part of the larger Peloponnesian War ), when the Athenians invaded the city.
However, this treatise makes evident that anti-democratic sentiments were extant in Athens in the late 5th century B.C. and were only increased after its shortcomings were exploited and made apparent during the Peloponnesian War.
In the mid-5th century the number of adult male citizens was perhaps as high as 60,000, but this number fell precipitously during the Peloponnesian War.
Kagan, The Peloponnesian War, 23–24 The more immediate events that led to war involved Athens and Corinth.
Megara deserted the Spartan-led Peloponnesian League and allied herself with Athens, allowing construction of a double line of walls across the Isthmus of Corinth and protecting Athens from attack from that quarter.
On the deck of a typical trireme in the Peloponnesian War there were 4 or 5 archers and 10 or so marines.
Pay was raised from 2 to 3 obols by Cleon early in the Peloponnesian war and there it stayed; the original amount is not known.
Sparta withdrew from the Hellenic League, reforming the Peloponnesian League with its original allies.
Common combinations with peloponnesian
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: