During the fifth century BC, Athens was a city-state to be reckoned with. Together with Sparta, it was one of the two great ...

Alcibiades was a gifted politician and general, but he is ultimately remembered as a traitor to Athens for defecting to ...

Thucydides’s account, History of the Peloponnesian War, is considered a classic, as well as being one of the earliest known ...

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 ...

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 ...

I HAD intended to call this study Two Wars, but I was afraid lest I should be under the domination of the title, and an elaborate comparison of the Peloponnesian war and the war between the States ...

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, ...

On Victor Davis Hanson’s War Like No Other. Victor Davis Hanson may just be our best military historian of the ancient world. He has traced the hard hand of war on Greek grain fields and olive groves, ...