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 ...

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

The truth is that if one just reads selected passages from Thucydides’ work, it is impossible to comprehend the events and complexities of the multi-decade Peloponnesian War. Moreover, as students ...

Sparta’s fear The first Peloponnesian War lasted 27 years, 431 - 404 BCE. Athens and Sparta, the two most famous cities of the ancient Greek world, were ...

It is only natural that he would turn now to the Peloponnesian War. 1 Not that anyone would approach the subject without a measure of trepidation. The Peloponnesian War is the Everest of ancient ...

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 ...

That’s the premise of the Irish writer Ferdia Lennon’s thrilling and heartbreaking debut novel, “Glorious Exploits,” which is set in 412 B.C. during the intra-Greek Peloponnesian War and ...