Sparta’s fear. 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.

Athens and Sparta were both powerful Greek city-states but their values, systems, and ambitions clashed violently. This video ...

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 Peloponnesian War is the Everest of ancient military history, big and frightening. Hanson largely sidesteps the subject of strategy, which Kagan handles so masterfully. Instead, Hanson focuses on ...

Peloponnesian War. Security; Rethinking the “Thucydides Trap” Geopolitical tension looms over American politics, as was evident in last month’s debate when Kamala Harris claimed her rival ...

Donald Kagan, The Archidamian War (Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 1974), p. 333. However, Lazenby comes to the strange conclusion that Sparta still did more damage to Athens than Athens did to ...

Before the Peloponnesian war, it was not interested in the domestic politics of others and preferred to be left alone. It headed the Peloponnesian League but was a passive leader.

Nir Eisikovits, professor of philosophy and director of the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston, is the author of “Glory, Humiliation and the Drive to War.” Sixteen years into the ...

How a trade war becomes a shooting war. Trump and Xi, take note: The United States and China risk falling into a trap over tariffs.

Revolutions and coups, shifts in alliances and alignments, and nearly continuous balance-of-power wars—among them the ruinous Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta—make for a story that ...