After emerging from the dark ages of the post-Mycenaean period, the city-states of the Greek Peninsula and Asia Minor managed to become powerful centers of intellectual and military tradition, coming into contact and conflict with neighboring Persia and, ultimately, themselves.
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Sources used:
Herodotus: The Histories
Plutarch: Life of Agesilaus
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War
Xenophon: Hellenica
Johnathan M Hall: A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200-479 BCE