An ancient greek city in the northeast peloponnesus that flourished during the bronze age as the center of an early civilization . It was the legendary capital of agamemnon .
Chinese scholars have paid less attention to the athenian navy , and they have mentioned it only when they carried on the researches such as some historical persons , the persion war and the peloponnesus war .
A region of ancient greece in the peloponnesus . Its inhabitants , relatively isolated from the rest of the known civilized world , proverbially lived a simple , pastoral life .
But xerxes was induced by the astute message of themistocles ( against the advice of artemisia of halicarnassus ) to attack the greek fleet under unfavourable conditions , instead of sending a part of his ships to the peloponnesus and awaiting the dissolution of the greek armament .