An earthquake in Sparta in the year 464 BCE started a series of events which ultimately led to the Peloponnesian War.

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 ...

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 ...

Sixteen years into the Peloponnesian War, the devastating conflict between the Athenian and Spartan empires during the fifth century BC, an Athenian fleet came to rest outside the tiny island of ...

Several years ago, as a new professor at the Marine Corps War College, I spent a huge amount of time putting together the best presentation on Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War ever presented at ...

The Melian Dialogue is among the most heavily analyzed sections in Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. Athens wanted to take Melos, a small island, as a subject of their ...

The Peloponnesian War was less an international than a domestic conflict, like the American Civil War. Rowers below deck on an Athenian trireme (that is, galley) elbowed and squabbled with each other ...

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 ...

In 431, shortly after the Peloponnesian War had broken out, Pericles delivered his famous Funeral Oration to commemorate those troops who had already fallen in battle. Recorded, and probably ...