Largely so.

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Athens first got itself an empire by diverting the anti-Persian league to its own financial benefit and power after peace with Persia.

It then interfered with other cities outside its league/empire, forcing them to form an alliance – the Peloponnesian League – to protect themselves. Against increasing Athenian intransigence, culminating with trying to ruin Megara, a Peloponnesian city, Athens was given an ultimatum to back off. Confident of its own strength, Athens refused and war ensued.

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