An earthquake in Sparta in the year 464 BCE started a series of events which ultimately led to the Peloponnesian War.

Twenty-five hundred years ago the Spartans were the indisputable military power in Greece. No city had warriors as fierce and ...

S pa rta’s check of imperial Athens in the inconclusive so-called First Peloponnesian War (460–445 B.C.) foreshadowed a remarkable subsequent twenty-eight-year growth in Lacedaemonian power and ...

Sparta was one of the most powerful city-states in antiquity. The ancient capital of the Laconia district of the southeastern ...

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

EDITOR’S NOTE: Victor Davis Hanson’s latest book, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War has recently been released by Random House. This week ...

In 1834, Sparta was re-established by Greece’s new king—Otto—and his court. A royal transplant from Germany, Otto wanted a city of wide boulevards and parks but you wouldn’t know it today.

Sparta, like America in 2024, went to war because it feared the rising power of Athens. Similarly, the US must feel uncomfortable with a strong Russia, a giant of a country recovering from the ...

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.