The ancient world suffered immensely from plagues, like the 430 BC Athenian plague, which had lasting consequences for all of ...

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 ...

Even as Athens experienced a Golden Age, the conflict with Sparta largely brought about its political decline. The Peloponnesian War in which Athens fought Sparta began in 431 B.C. At the outset ...

The story of the war between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC - narrated masterfully by Athenian general and historian Thucydides - was unfamiliar to most modern readers until American ...

Pericles' plan to defeat Sparta seemed to have taken account ... Then in 430, barely a year after the war began, Athens was struck by a disaster even Pericles could not have foreseen.

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

He burst onto the scene in 425 B.C. during Sparta’s struggle against Athens in the Peloponnesian War, breaking through a large cordon with just 100 men to relieve the beleaguered city of Methone ...

In 2014, the eminent political scientist Graham Allison wrote an influential book called “ Destined for War: Can America and ...

In 1945, during World War II, U.S. and Soviet forces linked up on the Elbe River, a meeting that dramatized the collapse of Nazi Germany’s defenses. Delegates from some 50 countries gathered in San ...