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.

Today we're talking about the Plague of Athens that ravaged the city in 430 BCE- the first in a series of Past Pandemics.

Athens and Sparta were both powerful Greek city-states but their values, systems, and ambitions clashed violently. This video ...

Some modern scholars believe these to be forgeries written later in antiquity, designed to give the otherwise shadowy figure ...

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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 ...

Reaching further back, it was noted by the English historian Arnold J Toynbee that while Sparta won the Peloponnesian war, it lost the peace.

In Ferdia Lennon’s ‘Glorious Exploits,’ prisoners during the Peloponnesian War are enlisted to put on a performance of the tragedy ‘Medea’ March 27, 2024 More than 1 year ago 5 min Summary ...