For 10 points, identify this conflict, retold by Thucydides, which saw Athens pitted against the eventual victors from Sparta.
The first stage of this conflict, the Archidamian War, was ended by the Peace of Nicias. The victors at the battle of Cyzicus saw their trade routes secured by their navy, but that was not enough to compensate for their previous disastrous Sicilian Expedition. The Battle at Syme saw a victory for the eventual loser under the command of Alcibiades, though he couldn't stop Lysander's victory in September of 405 BC at Aegospotami. For 10 points, identify this conflict, retold by Thucydides, which saw Athens pitted against the eventual victors from Sparta.
The first stage of this conflict, the Archidamian War, was ended by the Peace of Nicias.
{Peloponnesian} War