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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.
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.
In 431 b.c. , Athens began a war with its neighbor and league member Sparta.
Finally, Sparta, with naval help from former foe Persia, blockaded what was then the Hellespont (now the Dardanelles Strait), thus cutting off Athens from its crucial supply of grain.