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 story of the war between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC - narrated masterfully by Athenian general and historian Thucydides - was unfamiliar to most modern readers until American ...