Beck, 2022. — 119 p. Athen und Sparta kämpften im Peloponnesischen Krieg (431 bis 404 v. Chr.) um die Vorherrschaft in Griechenland. Beide hatten in Bündnissystemen zahlreiche Mitstreiter um sich geschart. So kam es zu einem jahrzehntelangen Ringen, das wegen seiner Dimensionen bisweilen gar als «antiker Weltkrieg» bezeichnet wird. Dank des athenischen Historikers Tukydides...
Hamilton Books, 2021. — 177 p. Athens’ decision to invade Sicily in 415 BCE marked an important turning point in its war with Sparta, which led ultimately to Athens’ defeat and the collapse of its empire. This is the story of the men who persuaded the Athenians to make war against Sicily and who led the great armada against the island in middle of the Mediterranean. The...
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 pp. — (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...
Duckworth, 1972. — 454 p. In this provocative and wide-ranging examination of the causes of the Peloponnesian war, first published in 1972, Geoffrey de Ste Croix argued against most previous historiography (which tended to blame Athens), that the Spartans and their allies must bear the immediate and ultimate responsibility for the war. The book includes a strong argument for...
Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2017. — 261 pages : 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. — 224 S. — (Historia – Einzelschriften 186). 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...
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. Prologue. 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...
Cornell University Press, 2013. — 1710 p. A New History of the Peloponnesian War is an ebook-only omnibus edition that includes all four volumes of Donald Kagan's acclaimed account of the war between Athens and Sparta (431–404 B.C.): The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, The Archidamian War, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, and The Fall of the Athenian Empire....
Cornell University Press, 2012. — 1710 p. A New History of the Peloponnesian War is an edition that includes all four volumes of Donald Kagan's acclaimed account of the war between Athens and Sparta (431–404 B.C.): The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, The Archidamian War, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, and The Fall of the Athenian Empire. Reviewing the...
Cornell University Press, 2013. — 400 p. This book, the second volume in Donald Kagan's tetralogy about the Peloponnesian War 431-404 BC, is a provocative and tightly argued history of the first ten years of the war. Taking a chronological approach that allows him to present at each stage the choices that were open to both sides in the conflict, Kagan focuses on political,...
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...
Cornell University Press, 1989. — 440 p. The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient texts. He focuses his study on the question: Was the war inevitable, or could it have...
Cornell University Press, 2013. — 400 p. Why did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta? In the third volume of his landmark four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian expedition to Sicily in 413 B.C. The principal figure in the narrative is the...
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 pp. — (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...
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 of...
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 -...
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 -...
Brill, 1972. — 156 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 21). Introduction, Terminology. The Overt Betrayals. Causes 1: The Enemy. Causes 2: The Fifth Columnists. Other Fifth Columns. Techniques: How the Fifth Columns worked, the Defense against Fifth Columns. The Fifth Column in the Strategy of the War. Conclusion. Appendix I. Bibliography. Index.
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, 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 allow...
Neoskeptic Publications, 2021. — 182 p. The book you are about to read is concerned with one of the most fascinating episodes in the history of ancient Greece, featuring larger-than-life characters like Socrates, Pericles, Alcibiades, Brasidas, and, of course, Thucydides, who told the story for posterity. We have much to learn, even today, from a deep dive into the history of...
Princeton University Press, 1981. — 288 p. In a new and controversial interpretation of the literary structure of Thucydides history of the Peloponnesian War, Hunter Rawlings contends that Thucydides consciously divided the war into two parallel ten-year conflicts with a period of nominal peace in the middle. Originally published in 1981.
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...
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 ’...
Ams Press, 1933. — 161 p. The First Battle of Mantinea of 418 BC was a significant engagement in the Peloponnesian War. Sparta and its allies defeated an army led by Argos and Athens. After the conclusion of the alliance between the Argives, Achaeans, Eleans and Athens, the humiliation of the Spartans in the 420 Olympic Games and the invasion of Epidaurus by the allies, the...
Hackett, 2021. — 298 p. Thucydides was the first ancient Greek historian to double as a social scientist. He set out to understand human events entirely in human terms, without recourse to myth. He sought to know why people go to war and how they are affected by its violence. He studied the civil war in Corcyra, which began when radicals burst into the council house and killed...
Комментарии