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

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

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 ancient world suffered immensely from plagues, like the 430 BC Athenian plague, which had lasting consequences for all of ...

Therefore, the central assertion of Ari Shavit’s slender and singular book, “ An Existential War: From Tragedy to Victory and Beyond,” unsettles. To survive in a post-Oct. 7 world in which the Islamic ...

Among all the city-states of Classical Greece, the most famous are certainly Athens and Sparta. Sometimes allies, often enemies, despite their shared language and culture, these two could not have ...

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

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 ...

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The Wrath of Sparta expansion for Total War: Rome II will release for the PC on December 16. Set at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War - a historical conflict between the city-states of Sparta and ...