During the fifth century BC, Athens was a city-state to be reckoned with. Together with Sparta, it was one of the two great ...

Bagnall (The Punic Wars, 2005), a former British army chief of the general staff, completed this rigorous study of ancient Greece's 27-year civil war just before his death in 2002. A seminal event in ...

In 416 BC in its war against Sparta, Athens instructed the fleet to break the small island of Melos’ alliance with its enemy. The Athenian historian Thucydides constructed the ensuing debate between ...

Sparta was an ancient Greek city-state located in the region of Laconia, in the Peloponnese. It was known for its military ...

Athens and Sparta represented for classical thinkers distinct and opposing regimes. Democratic Athens took pride in its freedom, openness, and accomplishments in the arts and philosophy. Oligarchic ...

During the Cold War, American scholars often compared the US and USSR to Athens and Sparta, two ancient Greek city-states.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. xx, 384. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $35.90. ISBN: 030024262X Rahe’s principal object is to show how the Spartans perceived their situation and ...

In 407 the Spartans made Lysander the chief general of their forces. Like Alcibiades he was a man of exceptional gifts, but unlike him he renounced all luxury, pleasure and show, unless it served to ...