Article: Leuctra

Article: Peace of Nicias
The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature;      8 words ...Peace of Nicias, see NICIAS and PELOPONNESIAN WAR .

Article: Archidamian war
The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature;      6 words ...Archidamian war, see PELOPONNESIAN WAR .

Article: Interview: Donald Kagan discusses the legacy of the Peloponnesian War
NPR Talk of the Nation;  May 14, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Kagan discusses the legacy of the Peloponnesian War Host: NEAL CONAN Time: 3:00-4:00...glaze over at the mention of the Peloponnesian War. Well, take another look. An aggressive...new single volume, recounting the Peloponnesian War. Donald Kagan is Sterling professor...

Article: Alcīdas
The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature;      11 words ...Alcīdas, Spartan admiral in the early part of the Peloponnesian War.

Article: Decline and fall
The Scotsman;  November 26, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Athenians and the Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War by Victor Davis Hanson Methuen, 397pp...to the Greeks collectively in the Peloponnesian War. After their David-like defeats of...Thucydides in his History of the Peloponnesian War - of the four- mile Long Walls, which...

Article: ON THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR: In His Own Words
Humanities;  May 1, 2005 ;     384 words ......perspective of the fifth-century Greeks the Peloponnesian War was legitimately perceived as a world...in the direction of oligarchy. The Peloponnesian War was also a conflict of unprecedented...current circumstances." From THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR. Copyright 2003 by Donald Kagan...

Article: Lysander
The Oxford American College Dictionary;      24 words ...Ly·san·der / līˈsændər / (died 395 bc ) Spartan general. He captured Athens in 404, bringing the Peloponnesian War to an end.

Article: No History Without Culture
Anthropological Quarterly;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......speech in Book Six (chap. 11) of The Peloponnesian War. Attempting to dissuade the Athenians...Hobbes, who first translated The Peloponnesian War into English in 1628, drew his idea...Hobbes trans.). In Hobbes' time, The Peloponnesian War ottered a framework for thinking...

Article: A WAR LIKE NO OTHERBOOKS / Nonfiction
International Herald Tribune;  October 14, 2005 ;     688 words ......Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War By Victor Davis Hanson 397 pages...First World War was for Europe, the Peloponnesian War was for the ancient Greeks. It was...battle would start to fray during the Peloponnesian War. By tradition, hoplites met on a...

Article: Lessons of the Peloponnesian War: although the current "war on terror" and the Peloponnesian War in ancient Greece are separated by over 2,400 years, their similarities are striking, instructive, and cautionary.(HISTORY--STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM)
The New American;  January 9, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Thucydides in The History of the Peloponnesian War A free people embroiled in an increasingly...describes Athens of 421 B.C. and the Peloponnesian War. The similarities between these two...great deal from the record of the Peloponnesian War preserved by the first great historian...

Article: Pericles
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations;      58 words ......the whole earth as their memorial.Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War bk. 2 2. Your great glory is not to be inferior to what God...are praising you or criticizing you.Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War bk. 2

Article: GREATEST of GREEK WARS; SUPPLEMENTING THUCYDIDES' HISTORY OF CONFLICT.(BOOKS)
The Washington Times;  August 3, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Thucydides' magisterial account of the Peloponnesian War. Indeed, the Peloponnesian War features everything one finds in modern...concern about Athenian power. The first Peloponnesian War broke out in 461 B.C., ending 16 years...

Article: THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR: ATHENS AND SPARTA IN SAVAGE CONFLICT 431-404 BC
The Spectator;  January 10, 2004 ;     700+ words ...THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR: ATHENS AND SPARTA IN SAVAGE...Kagan's four-volume history of the Peloponnesian war, which originally appeared between...life were abandoned. If the Peloponnesian war acquired something of the apocalyptic...

Article: Decelēa
The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature;      80 words ......view. Its occupation by the Spartans in 413 BC, during the Peloponnesian War, at the suggestion of the Athenian Alcibiades, put a stranglehold...x2019; is sometimes used to describe the last period of the Peloponnesian War, from 413 to 404.