The Spartan army clash with the Thebans and general Epaminondas at the Leuctra battlefield signified the end of Sparta's ...

He is the author of several books on ancient Greek history. Professor Kagan talked about his book, The Peloponnesian War , published by Viking. In this lecture, he explored the modern lessons that… ...

FIU Theatre is taking viewers to ancient Greece in its upcoming production of "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes. The comedic tale follows a woman, Lysistrata, who seeks to end the Peloponnesian War between ...

During the rapid degradation of Greece which followed the Peloponnesian war, we find the most singular and startling resemblances to occurrences of the present day.

In ancient times, Greece wasn't a single country like it is today. It was made up of lots of smaller states. ... Sparta and Athens fought a long war, called the Peloponnesian War, from 431 to 404BC.

But the Peloponnesian War is a tragic story of virtue and ambition, of failed deterrence and military genius. It's a story of the society that developed theater, history, philosophy and ...

A statue of the Greek writer Thucydides sits outside the Austrian capital in Vienna. More than 2,000 years ago, he noted the friction that led to war between an established power, Sparta, and a ...

Probably the most famous account of a plague from ancient Greece comes from Thucydides’ “History of the Peloponnesian War,” a generation-long war between the city-states of Athens and Sparta from 432 ...