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The Ancient Greeks were well known for their warfare, you only have to think of the films Alexander, Troy and 300 to find out the world renowned stories of Greece in battle. Today you are going to find out about the major Ancient Greek wars and the impact they had on the advance of civilisation and war as we know it. The Greco-Persian Wars. Of all the wars this is probably the most well known, not so much for the war itself but more for some of the famous battles within.
We hear a lot about Athens and Sparta, but what were some of the other ancient Greek city-states? There was Corinth, which was the richest commercial city of ancient Greece.Thebes is the birthplace of Hercules (whom the Greeks called Herakles), the legendary hero.he differences between Athens and Sparta eventually led to war between the two city-states. Known as the Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.E.), both Sparta and Athens gathered allies and fought on and off for decades because no single city-state was strong enough to conquer the others.