athens won the battle between athens and sparta.
who won the battle between athens and sparta?
athens
when the first peloponnesian war broke out, sparta was still preoccupied suppressing the helot revolt, hence its involvement was somewhat desultory. it amounted to little more than isolated expeditions, the most notable of which involved helping to inflict a defeat on the athenians at the battle of tanagra in 457 bc in boeotia. however they then returned home giving the athenians an opportunity to defeat the boeotians at the battle of oenophyta and so overthrowing boeotia. when the helot revolt was finally ended, sparta needed a respite, seeking and gaining a five-year truce with athens. by contrast, however, sparta sought a thirty-year peace with argos to ensure that they could strike athens unencumbered. thus sparta was fully able to exploit the situation when megara, boeotia and euboea revolted, sending an army into attica. the war ended with athens deprived of its mainland possessions but keeping its vast aegean empire intact. both of sparta's kings were exiled for permitting athens to regain euboea and sparta agreed to a thirty year peace.but the treaty was broken when sparta warred with euboea.
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