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Definition of Peloponnesus
1. Noun. The southern peninsula of Greece; dominated by Sparta until the 4th century BC.
Group relationships: Ellas, Greece, Hellenic Republic
Terms within: Sparta, Olympia
Generic synonyms: Peninsula
Derivative terms: Peloponnesian
Definition of Peloponnesus
1. Proper noun. Alternative name of Peloponnese. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peloponnesus
Literary usage of Peloponnesus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1843)
"This invasion was completely successful; all Peloponnesus, except Arcadia and
Achaia, fell into their power; and three chiefs of the ..."
2. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest. With by William Smith (1897)
"Conquest of Peloponnesus by the Dorians. Division of the Peloponnesus into the
Doric states, Elis, Achaia, and Arcadia. § 2. Division of the Doric states in ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1914)
"should be thrown on the most interesting province, and the name of Peloponnesus
will awaken the attention of the classic reader. ..."
4. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1830)
"THE WAR OF Peloponnesus. THE Peloponnesian war, which I am now entering upon,
... All Peloponnesus, Argos excepted, which stood neutral, had declared for ..."
5. Greece: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm), Karl Baedeker (1894)
""With the exception of the district in the SW subject to Sparta, there were hardly
any political entities in the Peloponnesus beyond the city-republics. ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1867)
"As early as the eighth century, in the troubled reign of the Iconoclasts, Greece,
and even Peloponnesus,* were overrun by some Sclavonian bands who ..."
7. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"In the theme of Peloponnesus,1' forty cities were still numbered, and the declining
state of Sparta, Argos, and Corinth, may be suspended in the tenth ..."
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