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Strategy and grand strategy in the Peloponnesian War
Adelphi SeriesWartime leaders should understand the link between violent means and political ends. They should also have a sense of how strategic decisions will affect the post-war peace. Yet they often fail to make these connections.
Joshua Rovner
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The influence of polis ideology on the moral state of polis society during the Peloponnesian war
КОНСЕНСУСThe Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta (431–404 BC) became a fateful era of the ancient world. It changed the direction of the further historical development of most of the ancient policies of Greece.
Sergiy Golovanov
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The End of a Civilization: What Moderns Might Learn from Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War
Advances in Cross-Cultural Decision Making, 2019Thucydides self-consciously presents the Peloponnesian War as the greatest war the world had ever seen to that point in history, insofar as it was a contest between the two greatest Greek powers—Athens and Sparta—at the peak of Greek Civilization.
G. A. McBrayer
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New Surveys in the Classics, 1985
If the picture of the Athenian empire after 446/5 given in the previous chapter is correct, we may accept Thucydides’ judgement that the truest reason for the Peloponnesians’ going to war against Athens was the growth of Athenian power and Sparta’s fear of it (1.23.6, 88, 118.2). Sparta demanded that Athens should leave the Greeks autonomous (1.139.3),
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If the picture of the Athenian empire after 446/5 given in the previous chapter is correct, we may accept Thucydides’ judgement that the truest reason for the Peloponnesians’ going to war against Athens was the growth of Athenian power and Sparta’s fear of it (1.23.6, 88, 118.2). Sparta demanded that Athens should leave the Greeks autonomous (1.139.3),
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Abstract This chapter focuses on the Peloponnesian War. The roots of the Peloponnesian War of 431–404 lay in the tensions that had arisen when the Greek world became a bipolar one following the foundation of the Delian League under the hegemony of Athens in 478.
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Internal Wars from the “First Peloponnesian War” to Chaeronea
A Companion to Greek Warfare, 2021Frances Pownall
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Reassessing the Peloponnesian War
Modern accounts of the great war between the Athenians and the Spartans in the late fifth century BC have simply reanalysed the gripping analysis of military and political events given by Thucydides. But a great deal of other evidence survives from this best-known of all periods of Athenian history.openaire +1 more source
Massacre in the Peloponnesian War
2012The year 1915 has a significant place in the history of massacre. In our time it conjures up the pointless slaughter of the Gallipoli landings. But the Gallipoli campaigns do not stand alone. The area has vital strategic value, and not surprisingly it has had a long and bloody history.
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