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A few hundred heroic troops under Leonidas of Sparta delayed the enormous Persian army at the pass of Thermopylae long enough for the Athenians to be evacuated to the island of Salamis.
In less than a year they were driven from the city, and Sparta, embroiled in other conflicts, let Athens re-establish its maritime alliances without resistance.
In 431 b.c. , Athens began a war with its neighbor and league member Sparta.
Reading about Telemachus' trip to Sparta to visit Queen Helen and King Menelaus, for example, you realize that he brought no luggage at all, except gifts for his hosts.
Athens became so attached to this source of easy money that dissent soon grew among the member cities, and Sparta led the confederacy from Athens after the Peloponnesian War (413– 404 b.c. ). The Persians, sensing weakness in the ranks, launched another offensive, resulting in the Aegean coast cities coming under Persian control in 387 b.c.