No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War.
The Peloponnesian War, which lasted from 431 to 404 BCE, is one of the most defining conflicts in the history of the ancient Greeks. The war, which saw Athens and Sparta, along with their respective ...
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is an awesome story about the ancient Greeks. But the story is more than a war report. It opens the doors into the nature of the Greeks, their culture, their ...
The first Peloponnesian War lasted 27 years, 431 – 404 BCE. Athens and Sparta, the two most famous cities of the ancient Greek world, were the chief adversaries. The Peloponnesian War, however, ...
Ancient Athens had its own "Great Wall" like China's, built to stop raids during the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC).
Publishers Weekly: The Peloponnesian War: Athens, Sparta and the Struggle for Greece
Bagnall (The Punic Wars, 2005), a former British army chief of the general staff, completed this rigorous study of ancient Greece's 27-year civil war just before his death in 2002. A seminal event in ...
NPR: From Ancient Greece, Lessons On The Risk Of A Modern, Accidental War
From Ancient Greece, Lessons On The Risk Of A Modern, Accidental War
In 431BC, at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, the Corinthians were in a predicament. Geopolitically stranded between the two superpowers, they feared for their ...
Indiatimes: The war that broke Greece: How Athens and Sparta destroyed their own world