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 ...

Even as Athens experienced a Golden Age, the conflict with Sparta largely brought about its political decline. The Peloponnesian War in which Athens fought Sparta began in 431 B.C. At the outset ...

A historical anecdote explains why the Macedonians and Spartans never went to war when king Philip conquered all of Greece.

As President Donald Trump seeks to end wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, his approach to both seems to boil down to giving ...

Pericles' plan to defeat Sparta seemed to have taken account ... Then in 430, barely a year after the war began, Athens was struck by a disaster even Pericles could not have foreseen.

It was made up of lots of smaller states. These states were always squabbling and often went to war. Sparta and Athens fought a long war, called the Peloponnesian War, from 431 to 404BC.

He wrote home to his wife Rebecca from the start of the American Civil War, when he left Athens to begin his training ... from the historic settlement of Sparta to The Homer Iliad newspaper ...

It was made up of lots of smaller states. These states were always squabbling and often went to war. Sparta and Athens fought a long war, called the Peloponnesian War, from 431 to 404BC.

Thucydides’ fifth century B.C. history of the war between Athens and Sparta includes a famous debate over the use of military power known as the Melian Dialogue. Athens lands a fleet at the ...