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

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

Meanwhile, Corinth became embroiled in a civil conflict between pro-Athenian democrats and pro-Spartan oligarchs, with the former ultimately prevailing. The Athenians then launched a counteroffensive ...

Yet Athens no more lost its war with Sparta than Nazi Germany did its offensive wars with France or Poland. By 425, in the seventh year of the conflict, almost all of Athens’ limited objectives ...

Athens (America) and its allies, known as the Delian League (NATO), came into conflict with the Spartans (Russia) and the Peloponnesian league (Warsaw Pact), and in 431 BC (1948) a war (Cold War ...

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.

Perhaps the clearest rebuttal of the super-warrior myth is found in the 120 elite Spartans who fought at the Battle of Sphacteria (425 B.C.); when their Athenian enemies surrounded them, they ...

For much of its history, Athens was either preparing for war, at war, or recovering from war. But in the window between the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, from 454 to 430 B.C., the city was at ...