Ancient Athens had its own "Great Wall" like China's, built to stop raids during the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC).
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 ...
In 404 B.C., the Peloponnesian War ended as Athens surrendered to Sparta.
Publishers Weekly: The Peloponnesian War: Athens, Sparta and the Struggle for Greece
Sparta’s check of imperial Athens in the inconclusive so-called First Peloponnesian War (460–445 B.C.) foreshadowed a remarkable subsequent twenty-eight-year growth in Lacedaemonian power and ...
Wall Street Journal: ‘The History of the Peloponnesian War’ Review: Warrior and Witness
In 431 B.C., Athens and Sparta went to war. Nearly 50 years earlier, in 480 B.C., the two cities had united to lead the Hellenic alliance that repelled a Persian invasion. In the mostly peaceful ...
No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War.
Spartan warriors stand along the shores of Greece, taunting the Athenian troops aboard their naval ships. Athens controls the water, but the fierce and deadly Spartan army continues to dominate on ...
I had thought that reading Robin Waterfield’s new translation of Thucydides’ “History of the Peloponnesian War” might offer some understanding, even some consolation, in these times of domestic ...
“For a superpower, dealing with the fast rise of a rich, brash competitor has always been an iffy thing . . . . Ask Thucydides, the Athenian historian whose tome on the Peloponnesian War has ruined ...