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

The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is an awesome story about the ancient Greeks. But the story is more than a war report. It opens the doors into the nature of the Greeks, their culture, their ...

As the war between Athens and Sparta was beginning, late in the 5th Century B.C., Thucydides, a young Athenian aristocrat, wrote that he had decided to write a history of the conflict because he ...

The Spartan-Persian peace, known as the peace of Antalcidas , marked Greek divisions, and symbolized Persian dominance in ...

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

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 ...

On Sparta’s Second Attic War, by Paul A. Rahe. Sparta’s check of imperial Athens in the inconclusive so-called First Peloponnesian War (460–445 B.C.) foreshadowed a remarkable subsequent ...

Ivan Krastev (Opinion, FT Weekend, December 21) notes the consequences of the fall of the Soviet Union and its impact on Europe. In his view, Europe responded to victory with a hubris that left it ...

Today Ubisoft revealed key details about Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, the series' new game based in ancient Greece, including timeline, RPG features, and release date. While Assassin's Creed: Odyssey ...