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 ...

For instance, bk. 1, chap. 121, sec. 4 of Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War would be cited Thuc. 1.121.4. All translations of ancient Greek texts are the author’s unless otherwise noted. 1 ...

Reaching further back, it was noted by the English historian Arnold J Toynbee that while Sparta won the Peloponnesian war, it lost the peace. Sparta’s allies had demanded the punishment of ...

The 4B movement "sounds like something out of a Greek drama", wrote Helen Coffey in The Independent, "when the women band together to end the Peloponnesian war by going on a sex strike", but it is ...

First-hand account by Thucydides of the wars between Athens and Sparta in the 5th century BC, which reshaped the face of ancient Greece. Read by David Horovitch. Abridged by Tom Holland.

February marks the return of the Peloponnesian winemakers to Cyprus with the annual Peloponnese Wine Festival. Wine professionals and lovers are invited to join this highly-anticipated annual event in ...