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

Ancient Greek military thinking and strategy presents useful lessons for modern military theorists and practitioners.

The Peloponnesian War was actually a sequence of three conflicts, fought from 431 to 404 BC between the dominant city-states of Athens, master of an empire of allied states stretching across the ...

The Peloponnesian War–in the manner that the carnage of World War I, with its massive conscript armies, machine guns, gas, and artillery, ended the romance of a good nineteenth-century fight ...

The war we today call Peloponnesian — what historians sometimes call the second Peloponnesian War (this, the subject of Thucydides’ life work and the defining event of his life) — was a 27-year ...

The Peloponnesian War gave rise to the person that wrote its history. This was Thucydides, an Athenian general who in 424 -423 BCE failed to prevent Spartans from capturing Amphipolis in Thrace ...

The fall of the Athenian army in Sicily during the Peloponnesian War in 413 BC as depicted in an 1893 illustration by J.G.Vogt. Wikimedia Commons ...

The reason “History of the Peloponnesian War” merits a close reading, however, is that depending on the time or place, there is always an element of his history that resonates.

In his magisterial history of the Peloponnesian Wars, the late classicist Donald Kagan sought to counter the popular conception of Thucydides’ history of that period, per which the clash between ...