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

Alcibiades was a gifted politician and general, but he is ultimately remembered as a traitor to Athens for defecting to ...

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 ...

Sparta and Athens: History's wartime lessons for a modern-day Israel - analysis As Netanyahu evokes "super-Sparta," Israel may be repeating the mistakes that left both city-states devastated after ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: If the PLAN officers reflect the conventional outlook among China’s decision-makers—and there’s little reason to think otherwise—then protracted strategic competition ...

New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xxviii, 418. Illus., maps, chron., personae, gloss., notes, biblio., index. $34.95. ISBN: 0199996644 Fresh Light on the ...

Prologue I learned a few things about Plato in high school and in my university classes on ancient and medieval Greek history. I improved that meager ...

Pericles' plan to defeat Sparta seemed to have taken account of everything. With a fleet of 300 triremes; 13,000 hoplite infantrymen; 1,200 cavalry and16,000 reserves; the Athenians believed ...

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