Sparta became the leading power of Greece. Athens, the strongest city-state in Greece before the war started, was reduced to a state of near-complete subjection. The Peloponnesian War reshaped the Ancient Greek world. The destruction of the Athenian fleet in a battle in 405 effectively ended the war, and Athens surrendered in the following year. Eventually, Athens lost its naval supremacy. In this phase, Sparta, now receiving support from Persia, supported rebellions in Athens' subject states in the Aegean Sea and Ionia, undermining Athens' empire. The final phase of the war is called the Decelean War, or the Ionian War. The attack failed, with the destruction of the entire force, in 413 BC. In 415 BC, Athens dispatched a large force to attack Syracuse in Sicily. That treaty, however, was soon undermined by renewed fighting in the Peloponnese. This period of the war ended in 421 BC, with the signing of the Peace of Nicias. In the first phase, the Archidamian War, Sparta launched repeated invasions of Attica, while Athens took advantage of its naval supremacy to raid the coast of the Peloponnese attempting to suppress signs of unrest in its empire. Athens was the greatest sea power, and Sparta the greatest land power in 5th century BC Greece.
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