CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED FEW historians of the ancient world put it quite this way, but the Peloponnesian War was won ...

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

A little over 200 years ago, the Greeks began their war of independence from the Ottoman Empire, which had conquered most of ...

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

Quincy High School's drama program presents "The Women of Troy," the tragic retelling of the Trojan War as experience by captive women.

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

The ancient Greek city of Argilos, a crucial but often overlooked player in the history of Macedonia, continues to unlock its ...

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

Small European states now seek protection through deeper EU ties amid growing global power rivalries. The latest example is ...

Plato, 428-348 BCE, grew up in a war-ravaged Athens fighting the Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BCE. This civil conflict nearly wrecked Greece. Athens and its Greek allies fought Sparta and its ...

In a far-off corner of the Peloponnese, clan wars left the hill town of Vathia in ruins. Rick Steves If you want to get away from it all when traveling in Greece, head for the Peloponnesian Peninsula.

Nir Eisikovits, professor of philosophy and director of the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston, is the author of “Glory, Humiliation and the Drive to War.” Sixteen years into the Peloponnesian War, ...