To survive in a post-Oct. 7 world in which the Islamic Republic of Iran wages a seven-front war against it, contends Shavit, Israel must combine the virtues of Athens and Sparta.

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

Doomed to War? China and America are Athens and Sparta Come Again. The wisdom of the ancients can help Washington, its allies, and its friends discern how to reply to China’s Melian challenge.

In today’s world, in order to be Sparta, a nation must also be Athens. Wars are no longer merely battles of physical strength. They are conflicts in which intelligence, technology, and science prevail ...

Set at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War - a historical conflict between the city-states of Sparta and Athens - the expansion takes players to ancient Greece in the year 432 B.C., several ...

In 418 BC Sparta defeated its neighbor and oldest rival, Argos, a city theoretically allied to Athens. One again, hostilities began to brew. In Athens, the charismatic aristocrat Alcibiades had ...