Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies (CSPS), School of Humanities, University of Nottingham, 2019. — 168 p. — Proceedings of the conference held in Nottingham 22-24 March 2013. On 22-24 March 2013 the second CSPS Post Graduate and Early Career Work in Progress Conference, entitled Conflict in the Peloponnese: Social, Military and Intellectual was held at the Centre for...
Routledge, 1997. — 162 p. — ISBN: 0-415-16430-3. Understanding the history of Athens in the all important years of the second half of the fifth century BC is largely dependent on the legacy of the historian Thucydides. Previous scholarship has tended to view Thucydides’ account as infallible. This book challenges that received wisdom, advancing original and controversial views...
Routledge, 2005. — 109 p. — (Essential Histories). — ISBN: 0-415-96853-4. This book gives a concise account of one of the key periods of Classical Greek history. The Peloponnesian War, which lasted from 431 to 404 BC, was a conflict between the Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta. It was a confrontation between the leading land power of the time, Sparta, and the leading sea...
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 96 p. — (Essential Histories; 27). — ISBN: 1-84176-357-8. It is a testament to the fascination of the subject that even today the events of the Peloponnesian War are studied for what they can teach about diplomacy, strategy and tactics. This book reveals the darker side of Classical Greek civilization. From the horrific effects of overcrowding and the...
Barnsley, U.K.: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2017. — 261 p. : maps. Naval power played a vital role in the Peloponnesian War. The conflict pitted Athens against a powerful coalition including the preeminent land power of the day, Sparta. Only Athens’ superior fleet, her ‘wooden walls’, by protecting her vital supply routes allowed her to survive. It also allowed the strategic freedom...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. Der Feldherr und Politiker Nikias hat vierzehn Jahre lang die Kriegsführung und Politik im Peloponnesischen Krieg zwischen Athen und Sparta sowie deren jeweiligen Verbündeten mitbestimmt. Keinen anderen wählten die Athener in diesem Krieg so häufig zum Strategen. Dennoch ist das Nikiasbild in der heutigen Forschung überwiegend negativ. Grund dafür...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. — 152 p. A pivotal skirmish involving nearly three hundred Athenian and Spartan ships toward the end of the Peloponnesian War, the Battle of Arginusae was at the time the largest naval battle ever fought between warring Greeks. It was a crucial win for the Athenians, since losing the battle would have led to their total defeat by Sparta...
Random House, 2006. — 966 p. — ISBN: 978-1-58836-490-6. Fear: Why Sparta Fought Athens (480-431). Fire: The War Against the Land (431-425). Disease: The Ravage the Plague at Athens (430-426). Terror: War in the Shadows (431-421). Armor: Hoplite Pitched Battles (424-418). Walls: Sieges (431-415). Horses: The Disaster at Sicily (415-413). Ships: The War at Sea (431-404). Climax:...
Cornell University Press, 1991. — 455 p. — (A New History of the Peloponnesian War). — ISBN: 0-8014-1935-2. In the fourth and final volume of his magisterial history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the period from the destruction of Athens' Sicilian expedition in September of 413 B.C. to the Athenian surrender to Sparta in the spring of 404 B.C. Through his...
Viking Press, 2003. — 511 p. For three decades in the fifth century B.C. the ancient world was torn apart by a conflict that was as dramatic, divisive, and destructive as the world wars of the twentieth century: the Peloponnesian War. Donald Kagan, one of the world’s most respected classical, political, and military historians, here presents a new account of this vicious war of...
Warszawa: Askon; Attyka, 2006. — 266 s. — (Seria: Ars Belli). — ISBN: 83-7452-007-8; 83-89487-15-2. Wojna peloponeska była największą i najdłuższą z wojen, jakie toczyli starożytni Grecy. W trwającym przez ponad ćwierć wieku konflikcie ateńsko-spartańskim wzięła udział większość państewek greckich. Szacuje się, że działania wojenne pochłonęły ponad 10% całej ludności Hellady....
Routledge, 2004. — 306 p. — (Warfare and history). — ISBN 0–415–32615–X. The range and extent of the Peloponnesian War of the fifth century BC has led to it being described as a ‘world war’ in miniature. With the struggle between Athens and Sparta at its core, the twenty-seven-year conflict drew in states from all points of the compass: from Byzantion in the north, Crete in the...
Basic Books, 2010. — 576 p. — ISBN: 978-0-465-02280-9. Song of Wrath tells the story of Classical Athens' victorious Ten Years' War (431– 421 BC) against grim Sparta — the first decade of the terrible Peloponnesian War that turned the Golden Age of Greece to lead. Historian J.E. Lendon presents a sweeping tale of pitched battles by land and sea, sieges, sacks, raids, and deeds...
Basic Books, 2012. — 576 p. Song of Wrath tells the story of Classical Athens' victorious Ten Years' War (431– 421 BC) against grim Sparta - the first decade of the terrible Peloponnesian War that turned the Golden Age of Greece to lead. Historian J.E. Lendon presents a sweeping tale of pitched battles by land and sea, sieges, sacks, raids, and deeds of cruelty and guile -...
Pen and Sword, 2013. — 192 p. The Athenian expedition to conquer Sicily was one of the pivotal events of the classical period. At this time (415 BC), Athens was locked in a decades-long struggle with Sparta for mastery of the Greek world. The expedition to Sicily was intended to give Athens the extra money and resources to crush the Spartans. New archaeological discoveries...
Pen and Sword Military, 2015. — 288 p. This original book looks in detail at arguably the two most significant characters on either side in the middle years of the great Peloponnesian War and the showdown in and around Amphipolis that led to both their deaths in 422 BC. The Spartan commander Brasidas was already a veteran of many campaigns when he headed for the strategically...
Free Press/Touchstone edition, 1998. — 752 p. Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed it is the first and still most famous work in the Western historical tradition. Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen, and liberally educated citizens for more than 2,000 years, The Peloponnesian War...
Westport, USA: Greenwood Press, 2004. - 206 p.: alk. paper - ISBN: 0-313-32499-9. The Peloponnesian War among the ancient Greek cities was a conflict that bears comparison with the more familiar conflicts of the twentieth century and its world wars. As the modern world wars were global, so too was the Peloponnesian War that reached across the Greek world — from the western...
United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. - 287 p.: hardcover : alk. paper - ISBN: 978-1-4051-2250-4, pbk. : alk. paper – ISBN: 978-1-4051-2251-1. From 431 to 404 a war raged across the Greek world from Sicily to the eastern Aegean, today ’ s modern Turkey, now known as the Peloponnesian War. Such violence was not an unusual feature of Greek life, as Homer ’...
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