No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the ...

The Peloponnesian War is the name given to the long series of conflicts between Athens and Sparta that lasted from 431 until 404 BC. The reasons for this war are sometimes traced back as far as ...

Even as Athens experienced a Golden Age, the conflict with Sparta largely brought about its political decline. The Peloponnesian War in which Athens fought Sparta began in 431 B.C. At the outset ...

The story of the war between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC - narrated masterfully by Athenian general and historian Thucydides - was unfamiliar to most modern readers until American ...

Sanctions date back to antiquity, with the "Megarian Decree" issued by Athenian statesman Pericles in 432 BC being the first recorded ...

Pericles' plan to defeat Sparta seemed to have taken account ... Then in 430, barely a year after the war began, Athens was struck by a disaster even Pericles could not have foreseen.

It was made up of lots of smaller states. These states were always squabbling and often went to war. Sparta and Athens fought a long war, called the Peloponnesian War, from 431 to 404BC.

First-hand account by Thucydides of the wars between Athens and Sparta in the 5th century BC, which reshaped the face of ancient Greece. Read by David Horovitch. Abridged by Tom Holland.

He burst onto the scene in 425 B.C. during Sparta’s struggle against Athens in the Peloponnesian War, breaking through a large cordon with just 100 men to relieve the beleaguered city of Methone ...

The map below shows the location of Sparta and Athens. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...

Thucydides, the ancient Greek historian of the Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens, has long been considered the father of both scientific history and political realism. But how extensive is ...