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 ...

Athens' Long Walls prompted distrust and eventual war 2,500 years ago. Nato is the most obvious 'Pericles Wall' of our times Much has been said about Thucydides' trap, but few talk about Pericles' ...

War was a prominent event in ancient Greece, whether between city states or against foreign powers. However, laws controlled ...

The Athenian view of Sparta oscillated between admiration and fear ... Later in the same century, however, Athens found itself at war with its ferocious former ally, a venture that greatly ...

Pericles' plan to defeat Sparta seemed to have ... constructed strategy relied on Athens weakening the enemy from the sea. Then in 430, barely a year after the war began, Athens was struck by ...

Sixteen years into the Peloponnesian War, the devastating conflict between ... The Melians wanted to stay neutral between Athens and Sparta, and the Athenians could not tolerate that stance.

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In the conflict between Athens and Sparta, the Melians tried in vain to ... a rudimentary reading of Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War. For a deeper reading, we might turn to renowned classicist ...