The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.

Robin Waterfield’s new translation of Thucydides’ “The History of the Peloponnesian War” offers clarity but little ...

The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is an awesome story about the ancient Greeks. But the story is more than a war report. It opens the doors into the nature of the Greeks, their culture, their ...

I HAD intended to call this study Two Wars, but I was afraid lest I should be under the domination of the title, and an elaborate comparison of the Peloponnesian war and the war between the States ...

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 ...

As the war between Athens and Sparta was beginning, late in the 5th Century B.C., Thucydides, a young Athenian aristocrat, wrote that he had decided to write a history of the conflict because he ...

For many who suffered through a world history course, the eyes may start to glaze over at the mention of the Peloponnesian War. But the Peloponnesian War is a tragic story of virtue and ambition, of ...