An earthquake in Sparta in the year 464 BCE started a series of events which ultimately led to the Peloponnesian War.

Ancient Greek military thinking and strategy presents useful lessons for modern military theorists and practitioners.

Athens and Sparta were both powerful Greek city-states but their values, systems, and ambitions clashed violently. This video ...

The Peloponnesian War is the name given to the long series of conflicts between Athens and Sparta that lasted from 431 until 404 BC. The reasons for this war are sometimes traced back as far as ...

Sparta’s fear. The first Peloponnesian War lasted 27 years, 431 – 404 BCE. Athens and Sparta, the two most famous cities of the ancient Greek world, were the chief adversaries.

Many self-professed champions of freedom throughout the centuries have looked to ancient Sparta as an inspiration. The doomed stand of 300 Spartan warriors against the Persian Empire at ...

” The subtitle referred to a famous passage in Thucydides’s “History of the Peloponnesian War”: “It was the rise of Athens, and the fear that this inspired in Sparta, that made war ...

The Peloponnesian War in which Athens fought Sparta began in 431 B.C. At the outset, the Athenian statesman Pericles ordered all inhabitants of the Attica region to take refuge within the capital ...

Sparta won the Peloponnesian War, the 27-year-long conflict Athenian expansion brought on between 431-404 BCE, and the only event that finally dragged the Spartans into prolonged military action.

Writing in his History of the Peloponnesian War of the fifth century B.C., Thucydides cautioned against Athenian complacency: Although Sparta was architecturally unimpressive, Spartan power ...