On the Athenian side was a rather colourful strategos, or general. This relatively young man's name was Alcibiades, and his ...

As Netanyahu evokes "super-Sparta," Israel may be repeating the mistakes that left both city-states devastated after decades of war. On the eve of the Peloponnesian War in 432 BC, the wise king of ...

Athens and Sparta represented for classical thinkers distinct and opposing regimes. Democratic Athens took pride in its freedom, openness, and accomplishments in the arts and philosophy. Oligarchic ...

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 ...

Israel should want to be Athens, not Sparta, two liberal Zionist academics argue.

Despite being rivals, many Athenians admired the government, clothing, and austerity of the Spartans. Falling prey to “Laconophilia,” some began to adopt the mannerisms and even dress like their ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the eve of the Peloponnesian War in 432 BC, the wise king of Sparta, Archidamus, was summoned to address a clash between the Corinthians and Athenians. Corinth, an ally of Sparta, warned that ...

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 ...