Athens and Sparta were two very different societies, yet the two legendary city-states hold priceless historic value for ...

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

Beginning in the 14th century, when Greece was wracked by political and social struggles, monks began building a series of ...

Bagnall (The Punic Wars, 2005), a former British army chief of the general staff, completed this rigorous study of ancient Greece's 27-year civil war just before his death in 2002. A seminal event in ...

The Peloponnesian War shows how fear, ambition, and mistrust can escalate into full-scale conflict. Thucydides’ trap helps us ...

A tough military society, Sparta had its own secret service, the Crypteia, specially trained young men for covert operations ...