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 ...

The map below shows the location of Athens and Sparta. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...

Sixteen years into the Peloponnesian War, the devastating conflict between the Athenian and Spartan empires during the fifth ...

A serious road accident occurred in the early hours near Sparta, leaving three men unconscious after their vehicle veered off ...

Unlike Athens to the north, Sparta was famed for its austerity—its “spartan” character—was, and is, proverbial. A state run by an inflexible military regime, whose people existed almost ...

A historical anecdote explains why the Macedonians and Spartans never went to war when king Philip conquered all of Greece.

The dead included Pericles, the populist leader who had turned Athens into an imperial power. The Peloponnesian War, launched by Sparta and its allies in 431, would dominate the first two decades ...

The map below shows the location of Sparta and Athens. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...