The Spartan-Persian peace, known as the peace of Antalcidas , marked Greek divisions, and symbolized Persian dominance in ...

The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.

Beginning in the 14th century, when Greece was wracked by political and social struggles, monks began building a series of ...

During the fifth century BC, Athens was a city-state to be reckoned with. Together with Sparta, it was one of the two great powers of Classical Greece. When in 431 bc the Peloponnesian War broke out, ...