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Justice in the Peloponnesian War The Oxford dictionary of English language defines being just as 1. accordance with what is right; 2. reasonable, based on reasonable grounds. Which brings us to probably the most critical question: Was it a just war? Determining that is probably the hardest to do. To try to establish if the war was just it is necessary to look at the reasons given for starting it, the ones stated by the two sides as well as the ones present in the background, were they the right reasons. It is also necessary to look at the expectations of the result, were these expectations reasonable. Thucydides claim that "Men's sympathies for the most part went with the Lacedaemonians." is an interesting one to observe since it was not the cities that were held in the Delian League against their will that applied to Sparta for support against Athens but representatives...

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