On The History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides, edited & translated by Robin Waterfield. The confusion sown by Saint Jerome illustrates what is at stake in translation. There is another ...

The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is an awesome story about the ancient Greeks. But the story is more than a war report. It opens the doors into the nature of the Greeks, their culture, their ...

“For a superpower, dealing with the fast rise of a rich, brash competitor has always been an iffy thing . . . . Ask Thucydides, the Athenian historian whose tome on the Peloponnesian War has ruined ...

In 431 B.C., Athens and Sparta went to war. Nearly 50 years earlier, in 480 B.C., the two cities had united to lead the Hellenic alliance that repelled a Persian invasion. In the mostly peaceful ...

Spartan warriors stand along the shores of Greece, taunting the Athenian troops aboard their naval ships. Athens controls the water, but the fierce and deadly Spartan army continues to dominate on ...

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. The Peloponnesian War, however, ...