On the Athenian side was a rather colourful strategos, or general. This relatively young man's name was Alcibiades, and his ...

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 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 ...

I HAD intended to call this study Two Wars, but I was afraid lest I should be under the domination of the title, and an elaborate comparison of the Peloponnesian war and the war between the States ...

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. The Peloponnesian War, however, ...

For a man so long dead, Thucydides is rarely out of the news. A recent Politico article discusses the influence of Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War on the Trump White House, with reference to ...

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 ...