Presents a contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta. This title compiles a factual record of this disastrous conflict.

How the Athenians and Sparta Fought the Peloponnesian War. An intimate and thorough account of one of the most far-reaching conflicts of the Ancient World with peculiar resonance to our times.

His name was Alcibiades, kinsman of Pericles and protege of Socrates. Undefeated on the battlefield, Alcibiades fled to Sparta after being forced to leave Athens when a trumped-up charge of treason was made against him. There, he was instrumental in guiding its legendary army to triumph.

Mary Renault explores Greek culture through the experiences of two young Athenians, Alexias and Lysis, who compete in the palaestra, journey to the Olympic games, fight in the wars against Sparta and study under Socrates.

The Stalingrad of the ancient world, this is an immensely readable, brilliant, brutal and vivid history of the greatest and bloodiest war of ancient Greece.

Details nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 and 362 BC. Presenting the story of the Peloponnesian War at the point where Thucydides finished his magisterial history, this title chronicles the conflicts that ultimately led to the decline of Greece, and the wars with both Thebes and the might of Persia.

Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language and culture, this collection of extracts for The History of the Peloponnesian War includes those passages that shed most light on Thucydides' political theory -- famous as well as important but lesser known pieces frequently overlooked by nonspecialists. Newly translated into spare, vigorous English, and situated within .

Discusses the Peloponnesian war as a struggle between a land and a sea power that descends into a grim struggle, in which moral standards decline and atrocities are perpetrated on civilian populations. This work looks at the mixture of attitudes that emerge among commanders - some put honour above all else while others pursue personal ambition.

The exploits of the famous army of Greek mercenaries in Turkey, Syria, and Iraq were described by one of their leaders, the Athenian historian and philosopher Xenophon. This title presents the story of the march of the Ten Thousand, across mountains and plateaux to the sight of 'The sea! The sea!', and back to the fringes of the Greek world.

It is 401 BC. After an epic battle in Persia, Xenophon is elected general of the defeated Greek army and must lead the men on a fraught journey back home - a journey of hundreds of miles, north from modern-day Iraq into the mountains of Kurdistan and Armenia, and down to the coast of the Black Sea, fighting all the way.

Tells the stories of the important clashes in world history. This work covers battles from ancient Egypt to the Second Gulf war, placing them chronologically within their tactical, technological, and historical context. Detailed maps help portray the course of famous battles and campaigns.

Analyzes the narrative technique of Thucydides, the historian of the war between Athens and Sparta in the 5th century BC. It relates his shifting uses of various techniques to his explanatory aims, showing how he narrates the progression of one war whilst exposing truths of the human condition.

The authors examines the rise and fall of the great empires of the classical world. This volume contains material previously published in the Essential Histories series as well as a new chapter focusing on the modern treatment of ancient Greece in film and theatre.

What is the source of the uniquely Western way of war, the persistent militarism that has made Europe the site of bloodshed throughout history and secured the dominance of the West over the rest of the world? The answer, Doyne Dawson persuasively argues in this groundbreaking new book, is to be found in the very bedrock of Western civilization: ancient Greece and Rome. The Origins of Western ...

The Athenians could not separate politics from the private sphere; indeed, the father-son conflict was a major public as well as private theme. This book explores the consequences of the powerful influence of familial ideology on politics.

Designed to introduce both students and general readers to a work that is an essential part of a liberal education, this book seeks to encourage readers to explore Greek author Thucydides - one of the world's greatest historians. It examines his landmark History of the Peloponnesian War , one of the great classics of Western civilization.