Athens' Long Walls prompted distrust and eventual war 2,500 years ago. Nato is the most obvious 'Pericles Wall' of our times Much has been said about Thucydides' trap, but few talk about Pericles' ...

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 ...

The Athenian view of Sparta oscillated between admiration and fear ... Later in the same century, however, Athens found itself at war with its ferocious former ally, a venture that greatly ...

The defeat of the Persian navy at Salamis in 480 was by no means the end of the war, but it was the decisive ... had attempted to forge an alliance with Athens against Sparta.

“They don’t see that he’s got any leverage over them.” Thucydides’ fifth century B.C. history of the war between Athens and ...

In the conflict between Athens and Sparta, the Melians tried in vain to ... a rudimentary reading of Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War. For a deeper reading, we might turn to renowned classicist ...

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.

The map below shows the location of Athens and Sparta. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...

The Peloponnesian War, launched by Sparta and its allies in 431 ... A Macedonian garrison imposed “virtual imprisonment” upon Athens. Between half and two-thirds of Athenian citizens were ...