They each provided major forces for a coalition of southernGreek city-states to resist the Persian invasion. After theinvasion was repelled, Sparta left the follow-up action to Athens.They remained allies until Athens converted the anti-Persianalliance into an empire of its own after the Persians gave uptrying to enforce peace in the western Mediterranean. Athensover-reached itself and this led to the Peloponnesian War between aSpartan alliance and Athens and its empire.
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In this war Persia gave assistance to Sparta to help it defeatAthens.
