As is represented throughout most of Grecian architecture and the architecture of cultures that it influenced, the column was one of the most important parts of a Greek building. Through the centuries, they became more elaborate, starting …show more content…
The two most definitely powerful city-states became Athens and Sparta, and it was only a matter of time before they came to bump heads in the next major war of Greece: the Peloponnesian war. This war also involved alliances, but those of the most destructive kind. These alliances pitted a common people against each other when Athens’ and Sparta’s rivalry over the control of Greece dissolved the entire nation into civil war. From 431 to 404 BC a series of attacks raged between the Peloponnesus and Attica peninsula ‘empires’ of Athens and Sparta. In the end, Sparta was victorious, and Athens never regained its pre-war prosperity, but all of Greece felt the economic and overall negative aftereffects of the civil wars, leading up to them being conquered by